Widespread Areas of Power Outages Reported Overnight

GRUNDY COUNTY, MO – Several hundred people were reported to have lost power for a couple hours Wednesday evening after a tractor hit a transmission line.  Reports began coming in of widespread power outages around 8 pm.  Trenton Municipal Utilities restored power to its customers around 10 p.m. and all power was restored to Evergy customers by 10:30 p.m.

The outage affected a large part of Grundy County, the southern portion of Mercer County and rural areas of Livingston, Sullivan and Linn counties.  As of 5:30 a.m. Grundy Electric Cooperative reported 84 members without power in Harrison County.