Crews continue work to restore power

4 p.m. Friday update

Thousands of residents in our area remain without power after severe weather swept through yesterday afternoon.

Duke Energy is reporting about 4,500 customers in southeastern Indiana without power, including about 1,500 customers without power in the Bartholomew County and almost 1,200 in Jennings and Jackson Counties.

Chip Orben with Duke says that crews are having to clean up a lot of downed vegetation before they can get to restoring power in some areas. Extra crews are on scene, he said.

Bartholomew County REMC is reporting 18 customers without power. Crews had to come in for a mandatory rest period last night before heading back out this morning to make the rest of the repairs.

Jackson County REMC says that about 75 customers are still without power and Southeastern Indiana REMC is reporting about 640 outages in their service area, including 85 customers in Jennings County.