What Duke Energy is calling the largest power outage in the company’s history has left thousands in the Greater Cincinnati area without any electrical power.
Sunday’s windstorm, the resulting remnants of Hurricane Ike, has, as of press time, left about 60,000 Duke Energy customers still waiting and riding out the outage in the dark; 22,000 of those in Clermont County alone.
Duke spokesperson Kathy Meineke said that at the storm’s height, 90 percent of the tri-state area had lost all electrical power.
“We are continuing to assess the situation,” Meineke said on Sept. 16. “We still anticipate that some customers will not be back up and running until this weekend.”