INITIAL REPORT
Blame the hundreds of outages reported to Dayton Power & Light on Tuesday night on strong winds that have the entire Miami Valley under a wind advisory until Wednesday morning.
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"We're chasing a few outages," DP&L spokesman Rob Beeler said. "We're seen a lot of wind coming through. It's a continuation of the weather we've had the last few weeks."
At 9:30 p.m., he said, there were 19 outages affecting 435 customers and DP&L crews were working the following reports:
- A downed pole in the 2300 block of Lower Bellbrook Road, in Spring Valley, Greene County
- A pole reportedly leaning in Xenia that prompted police to close Massie Drive at Kylemore Drive as well as Raybell Drive to West Second Street.
- An issue with a pole in Miami County
- An issue near Austin Landing (a crew has been dispatched to confirm whether it is an outage involving a pole)
- An issue in Miamisburg (a crew has been dispatched for an assessment)
A check of DP&L's online outage page at 9:30 p.m. shows 302 outages in Montgomery, 90 in Miami, 37 in Darke and 4 in Greene. Ohio Edison is reporting 17 in Clark County.
Wind gusts as high as 48 mph have been reported at various times Tuesday night a mile south of downtown Dayton, at Dayton International Airport, Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and Auglaize County Neil Armstrong Airport in New Knoxville.
"They [outages] are scattered and we expect the wind to continue through the night, so the numbers [of outages] could continue," he said.
Beeler is asking people to be careful through the night. He's also asking people to report outages with as much detail as possible.
DP&L has extra people at its dispatch center to deal with outage reports, he said.
You can report an outage online or call 937-877-4outage.
We will update this developing report as we learn more.
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