Evergy crews continue to restore power after severe storms crossed the service area. As of 7 a.m. Saturday, July 15, over 92,000 Evergy customers were without power. Power has been restored to about half of the customers impacted by the storms that moved through Friday afternoon and evening. About 186,000 customers were out at the storm’s peak. More than 1,000 people are working on storm restoration, including line and vegetation crews, plus safety and other support teams. Evergy has also reached out to neighboring utilities in Iowa, Colorado, Oklahoma and Missouri for assistance. Evergy expects restoration in the areas most severely impacted to be a multi day restoration effort. In events with widespread outages, individual estimated restoration times are not available.

In addition to crews working to restore power, teams will be going into affected areas to assess damage. You may see Evergy trucks in your neighborhood with teams that are collecting information so that line crews are equipped with what they need for local repairs when assigned.