After three days, many communities across Northeast Ohio are still without power due to the storms that occurred Thursday night and Friday morning.
Ten tornadoes wreaked havoc on towns within News 5's viewing area, leaving people with severe damage and power outages.The areas impacted are:Summit County - 1,645 Fire departments in these areas have been receiving numerous phone calls about the power outages, leaving places like Kent to need to call for backup.
Workers from Hawk Line Construction in Missouri have traveled to Kent and are staying locally to help restore power to the town, according to a Facebook post from the Kent Fire Department.According to FirstEnergy, Portage County will regain power Monday night around 11 p.m. In Mentor, the fire department received over 130 calls in 24 hours relating to the storms, according to the Mentor Fire Department's Facebook page. An EF-1 tornado touched down in Mentor at 12:04 a.m. near Mentor Avenue, causing trees to fall and damaging multiple homes in its path. Mentor itself has over 2,000 power outages; however, Lake County is not set to regain power until Wednesday.News 5 Now Sunday Afternoon Download the News 5 Cleveland app now for more stories from us, plus alerts on major news, the latest weather forecast, traffic information and much more. Download now on your Apple device here, and your Android device here. You can also catch News 5 Cleveland on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, YouTube TV, DIRECTV NOW, Hulu Live and more. We're also on Amazon Alexa devices. Learn more about our streaming options here.
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