More than 65,000 residents were cut off from electricity at about 1:45 a.m. Friday.
on Thursday night and early Friday morning have left thousands of people without power. More than 65,000 residents were cut off from electricity at about 1:45 a.m. Friday, according to FirstEnergy. Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and Euclid were the hardest hit, although there were extensive outages in several other cities.
Lake County had more than 35,000 outages, with over 11,000 in Mentor. Mentor-on-the-Lake, Eastlake, Wickliffe, Willoughby and Willoughby Hills all had thousands without power. There were over 24,000 outages spread out over Geauga County, although the eastern communities such as Bainbridge Township and Chester Township had the largest numbers. Lorain County had over 15,000 outages while Portage County had nearly 30,000. Summit County also had nearly 30,000 outages, with Akron, Copley and Barberton all reporting more than 4,000. There were just over 12,000 in Trumbull County and nearly 7,600 in Stark County. There currently are no estimates on when power might be restored as severe weather still was moving through the area.
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