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UPDATED: Some in Fridley Lose Electric Service during Storms

Xcel Energy estimates it will restore electric service Wednesday morning.

Update (11:05 a.m.): All customers in Fridley except the 31 who lost power at 9:29 a.m. Wednesday now have electricity again.

Update (10:30 a.m.): One group of Fridley customers got electric service back after an early morning outage, but another area remains without power and two more areas have lost power, according to Xcel Energy.

A Concerto Curve NE resident let Fridley Patch know via Twitter that power was out on her street as of 5:36 a.m. By 8:50 a.m. it was back on, she tweeted—earlier than Xcel had estimated.

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However, 49 Fridley customers who lost power at 2:31 a.m. saw one estimated restoration time pass and now can look forward to electrical service being restored by 11:38 a.m.

And 32 more Fridley customers have lost power as the morning has progressed with more storms passing through. All but one of those lost power at 9:29 a.m. and can expect to have it back by 12:29 p.m., according to Xcel's online outage map.

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Original post (7:45 a.m.): Fridley has 90 electrical customers without power as of 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, according to Xcel Energy's online outage map.

The utility estimated it would be able to restore power by 10:18 a.m. for 41 customers who lost it at 5:16 a.m.

However, the company's 6:26 a.m. estimated time for restoring service to 49 other Fridley customers who lost power at 2:31 a.m. had come and gone.

The outages followed overnight thunderstorms with continued rain a possibility in Wednesday's forecast.

Call Xcel at 1-800-895-1999 to report an electrical outage. Call 9-1-1 for an emergency.


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