Power outage affects 56% of county

Sundays afternoon storm left 56% of the county in the dark at 3p.

SWEPCO and URECC both are aware of the outages and are assessing the situation.

Outage maps and state charts indicate:

Parts of downtown Jefferson was restored within an hour.

By 4p the percentage without power had grown to 58%. With SWEPCO accounting for 1,000 and URECC with 3,942 outages.