A storm with strong winds passed through the area late Sunday night and early Monday morning, resulting in electrical outages and lots and lots of tree and limb damage.
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The city of Trenton as well as other communities in all directions looked like a brush dump as trees and limbs were down on the ground. Electric services were also affected throughout the area, although many customers found themselves back on throughout the day due to the quick work of utility and cooperative personnel.
In Trenton, an area in the southeast part of town, south of Ninth Street and east of the railroad tracks, was without electricity for about one hour from midnight to 1 a.m. as a tree fell into some lines. Around 500 customers were affected, according to Trenton Municipal Utilities Director Chad Davis, who added that service in that area was back on this morning. He said there were some individual outages throughout the city as well, but that those customers also had electric service restored.
Grundy Electric Cooperative said most of its electric outages were due to the high wind and trees that fell into electric lines. Nearly all counties in the GEC service area were affected, with two large group outages and several individual outages, and crews worked throughout the night in an effort to get service restored. As of this morning, about 200 customers remained without service.
Several KCP&L customers in the area remained without electricity today, according to persons living in affected areas. A spokesperson for KCP&L’s media relations department had not returned a telephone call to the newspaper as of press time.