8/11/2009

Thousands of people remained without power Tuesday morning in the wake of a hurricane-force storm that lashed the area about noon Monday.

Westar Energy reported nearly 1,400 customers in Saline County were without power around 9:30 a.m., and another 238 in Dickinson County.

Meanwhile, DS&O Electric Cooperative was reporting heavy damage to its system and had some 1,200 customers without power, mostly south of Interstate Highway 70 between Solomon and Junction City.

The two utilities are working together to restore power, as in several places, Westar transmission lines had fallen over DS&O lines.

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Watch video of cleanup efforts throughout Salina.  Heavy rain and wind hit Salina just before noon Monday, August 10, 2009.

Videos:

• The steeple of the First Southern Baptist Church at Ohio and Magnolia was blown over, crashing into the roof.
• Cleanup of tress on Ellsworth street.
• A resident of Salina begins cleanup using a chainsaw.
• Children that will return to school later this week spent one of their last free days of summer helping cleanup tree limbs. 

Additional Story Coverage:

• Smashing Storm
• Spire punctures hole in church's roof
  
• Storm was 'dark and creepy'
  

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For more on how Salina and the area are doing after Monday's storm, see Wednesday's Salina Journal, and stay with salina.com.

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