Power being restored, but more than 107,000 still without power in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City areas - The Gazette

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On Wednesday evening, over 107,000 Linn and Johnson County residents were still without power.

About 13,000 residents have restored power on Wednesday as at 10 a.m., over 120,000 residents were still without power.

As of 5 p.m., 80,880 of 97,603 Alliant’s Linn County customers were still without power. In Johnson County, 3,256 of 9,827 Alliant customers do not have power.

In a Wednesday afternoon statement, Alliant said power had been restored for close to 75,000 customers with most living in Williamsburg, Marengo and Jefferson.

“With the first transmission lines connected into Cedar Rapids by ITC Midwest, Alliant Energy was able to energize downtown Cedar Rapids,” the statement reads. “This is one of the many transmission lines that ITC owns that connects into Cedar Rapids. We are working closely with them.”

Lights are also back on in downtown Cedar Rapids according to a separate Wednesday news release from Alliant.

“This is great news for many of our customers,” Terry Kouba, SVP at Alliant and president of the Iowa Utility Company said in a statement. “At the same time, we still have a long road ahead to fully restore all services in Cedar Rapids and throughout the state.”

MidAmerican Energy Company has 11,392 of its 47,836 Johnson County customers without power. The company put out a statement early on Wednesday saying it had restored power to 130,000 of its customers statewide.

Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative had 15,200 of its 29,880 Linn and Johnson County customers without power still as of 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

Spokespeople from each utility company have previously said for customers to expect extended outages that could last several days for some customers. Multiple companies, like MidAmerican have turned to bringing in other crews to help restore power, starting with areas of “critical need.”

All companies continue to ask residents to stay away from down power lines.

Mediacom, ImOn working to restore internet service

Internet service providers Mediacom and ImOn are still prepping to restore services as well to area residents. Both companies have to wait for utility companies to restore power before they can fully get to work.

“We follow commercial power so the first step is to get commercial power restored. Our technicians are doing the work now to get ready and go in and do what we do,” Lisa Rhatigan, vice president of marketing for ImOn said on Wednesday morning.

Rhatigan said there is currently no timeline estimate to restore internet in the area due to different estimates on power restoration.

“The best we’ve heard is a few to several days,” she said. “Our team is on it and we’re working to be ready and that’s all we know at this point.”

Mediacom spokeswoman Phyllis Peters said on Wednesday evening that over 57,000 modems are still offline at this time in the Eastern Iowa area with the largest impact area being Cedar Rapids by far.

Between 5,000 and 7,000 homes came back online in those areas on Wednesday Peters said.

Peters said the number includes Iowa City, North Liberty, Williamsburg and other smaller impact numbers in southeast Iowa.

The company also needs electric utilities to restore power first Peters said.

Mediacom’s fiber line connecting Cedar Rapids and Vinton was damaged Peters said. Once electricity come back, most customer’s internet service will resume. The three major cuts in the fiber network near Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Vinton means some Mediacom Customers still will not have internet after their power is restored.

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