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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Jul 25, 2024, 01:58 PM Jul 2024

Thousands remain without power in Western Montana Thursday morning

Thousands remain without power in Western Montana Thursday morning

by NBC Montana Staff | Thu, July 25th 2024 at 7:37 AM



Thousands of customers remained without power on Thursday morning after a storm caused widespread damage across Western Montana on Wednesday night. Photo: Parker Christiansen

MISSOULA, Mont. — Thousands of customers remained without power on Thursday morning after a storm caused widespread damage across Western Montana on Wednesday night.

Northwestern Energy's outage map showed dozens of confirmed outages in the Missoula area, Bitterroot Valley, from St. Regis to Superior, and from Helena to Boulder.

More than 800 Mission Valley Power customers were without power on Thursday morning, according to their outage map.

Missoula Electric Cooperative's outage map noted more than 14,000 customers without power as of 7 a.m.

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Thousands remain without power in Western Montana Thursday morning (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 OP
Our power came back on in the middle of the night. MontanaMama Jul 2024 #1

MontanaMama

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1. Our power came back on in the middle of the night.
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 02:37 PM
Jul 2024

Thankfully. We have a tree down that we will start removing later today or tomorrow. When this thing started, my son had just left his room to join his dad on the porch. A moment later the wind picked up patio umbrella in the back yard and launched it through his bedroom window...the wind sucked it back out and over the house to the front yard where the tree uprooted and fell on it. It was surreal. There were shards of glass all over the kiddo's bed and across his desk. He would have been badly injured had he been in his room one more minute. I have neighbors with downed trees covering their homes. We don't get storms like this here. I guess we do now.

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