(Madison, Wis.)– Alliant Energy’s equipment sustained widespread damage in Iowa and southern Minnesota because of the weekend storms.
The Madison, Wisconsin utility company is working to restore power to tens of thousands of customers. The ice, heavy snow and strong winds damaged or destroyed atleast two-thousand power poles and toppled a thousand miles of power lines.
Alliant says at one point during the storms, more than 170-thousand customers were without power–about a third of all the company’s customers in Iowa and Minnesota.
Alliant spokesman Scott Smith says some customers may be without power for three days, and for others, it could be a week or more before service is restored. None of those are in our area. No widespread power outages were reported locally. Outages here were sporadic…mostly the result of tree limbs coming down onto individual service lines.
Alliant is the parent company of Interstate Power and Light in Iowa and Wisconsin Power and Light in Madison, Wisconsin.
(Information for some of this story was derived from the Associated Press.).
