Some area KCP&L electric customers in the area still are without power due to a snowstorm over the weekend.
According to a post on KCP&L’s website, Winter Storm Gia dumped heavy, wet snow on the area. According to the National Weather Service, the snowfall amount was the most in a single day that the Kansas City region had seen in nearly three decades. Snow clung to tree limbs and equipment, taking down tree limbs and power lines. As a result, KCP&L experienced extensive damage to its electrical system and customers lost power.
At the peak, about 110,000 customers were without power, which is the largest storm – in terms of customer outages – that KCP&L has had since 2011. As of 9 a.m. Sunday, about 85,000 customers were without power. As of 6 p.m., power had been restored to more than 80,000 customers.
New reports of power outages still are being received. Some customers have lost power multiple times. Possible causes of multiple outages include snow melting and refreezing on equipment, other tree branches breaking and affecting lines that have already been fixed.
The current KCP&L outage map shows there still are customers without power in the Concordia and Lexington areas in Lafayette County; DeWitt in Carroll County; and Mendon in Chariton County. There also are outages reported in Johnson and Ray Counties, as well as many in the immediate KC Metro area.
Outages may be reported online at KCPL.com or by calling (888)-LIGHTKC (888-544-4852).