Power Outages in Dakotas Update
February 03, 2010
The power outages in the Dakotas caused by storms late last month are now down to only a few hundred rural electric customers.
Spokeswomen estimate about 250 households without power in South Dakota and about 120 still in the dark in North Dakota. At the peak of the outages, more than 20,000 people in the two states were
without electricity.
South Dakota Rural Electric Association spokeswoman Brenda Kleinjan says damage in that state has topped $10 million. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the Federal Emergency Management
Agency has agreed to begin damage assessments in that state.
Both Dakotas are seeking presidential disaster declarations to
clear the way for federal aid.
