INGALLS — Power should return sometime today to hundreds of homes in southern Madison County left without electricity after a fierce storm passed through the area Friday night.
More than 300 Duke Energy customers in the county were still without power Saturday evening, down from nearly 2,000 total outages since 5:30 p.m. Friday, according to the utility company’s Web site.
Those without power can expect to have it restored by noon Sunday, said Duke Energy spokeswoman Angeline Protogere.
“We are bringing in crews from our sister company, Cincinnati Gas and Electric, as well as other areas to help us speed up power restoration,” she said.
The storm, which dumped more than 4 inches of rain in some areas, downed utility lines and blocked roads with debris. A barn was reportedly blown off its foundation near the intersection of Indiana 9 and County Road 900 West, and a tree reportedly blew onto a house in Ingalls.
Earl and Ellen Davis awoke Saturday to find five trees down in their yard but no damage to their home about a mile north of the Hancock County line.
“It was quite shocking when we got up this morning,” Ellen Davis said.
The storm also caused fallen tree limbs to block numerous roads, and Madison County Emergency Management closed a stretch of Indiana 9 near Ingalls going south from Indiana 67 to County Road 1100 North in Hancock County, said spokesman Todd Harmeson.
“I do not have any reports of damage in the north,” he said.
A small power outage in Anderson near Tenth Street and Madison Avenue was fixed after less than four hours, said a staff member of Anderson Light and Power.
In Indianapolis, a tornado swept through a neighborhood on the city’s east side and ripped roofs off several apartment buildings.
The tornado was part of a storm system that swept through Illinois, central Indiana and parts of northern Indiana with heavy rain, high winds and thunder and lightning. Eye witnesses also reported a tornado touching down in an open field in Carroll County, said Mike Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. That twister did no damage.
Meteorologist Ashley Brooks said the storms moved into the area on the edge of a cold front that swept in from the northwest. Before that, a warm front from the south had given central Indiana only its second 80-degree day in May, an unusually low total.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report.
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