Midamerican energy reported about 77 000 iowa customers were still without power thursday afternoon with about half of those in the des moines area.
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At about 2 40 p m more than 126 000 people were without power in des moines according to mid american energy.
Cownie said he has never seen a storm cause more than 100 000 outages.
A total of 16 005 people in the iowa city area were without power.
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Some parts of des moines electric grid date back as far as the 1800s cownie said.
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Power outage also called a power cut a power blackout power failure or a blackout is a short term or a long term loss of the electric power to a particular area.
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Cedar rapids city manager jeff pomeranz said the damage done by monday s storm was more impactful than the 2008 flood which was one of the nation s most expensive natural disasters at the time.
While we work on restoring power the estimated restoration time will read under investigation in a major storm or event it can take 24 hours or longer to provide accurate information.
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Poweroutage us is an ongoing project created to track record and aggregate power outages across the united states.
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Restoration times are estimates only.