The cleanup in Owensboro from Sunday’s windstorm is still in its early stages, with crews having cleared all the city’s streets and now grappling with the extensive task of clearing debris from fallen trees and limbs throughout theity c.
As of Monday afternoon, between 8,000 and 9,000 Owensboro Municipal Utilities customers were still without power, or about half of those that had lost power at the storm’s peak Sunday afternoon.
The city’s GIS department prepared the map below showing roads that had been blocked by fallen trees and power lines throughout Owensboro after the storm came through Sunday morning.
Sept. 14 Windstorm
It doesn’t appear that any neighborhood inside the U.S. 60 bypass was spared from the high winds that damaged hundreds of trees, including the world’s largest sassafras tree on Frederica Street, during the several hours it took the storm to pass.
In contrast, take a look at the map below, that depicts the damage from the tornado that came through Owensboro in October 2007 and carved a clear path through the city’s northwestern corner and downtown.
October 2007 Tornado
City officials said Monday that the cleanup will likely take several weeks, and as of Tuesday morning, more than 6,000 Kenergy customers in Daviess County were still without power along with those thousands inside the city limits that are still offline.
Update…
Here are some figures that the governor’s office released this afternoon -
- 313,473 people are without power statewide; 161,000 of those are in the Louisville Metro area
- 65,800 people are without power in northern Kentucky
- Some 40,000 people remain without power throughout the rest of the state, largely concentrated in western Kentucky
- 3,000 people are without water
- 20 counties have declared states of emergency along with 13 cities. Gov. Beshear declared a statewide emergency Sunday night
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