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A violent windstorm swept through Van Wert County late Wednesday night, downing trees, knocking out power, and leaving a trail of damage across the region.
On Thursday afternoon, the Village of Dupont was doing its best to get back on its feet after an EF-1 tornado struck late Wednesday night.
The Putnam County Office of Public Safety opened two cooling stations for residents at Trinity United Methodist Church in Ottawa and Kalida Church in Kalida to beat the heat from 3 to 9 pm on Tuesday. With an Excessive Heat Warning in effect across the region with many residents without power, the dangerous heat index values hamper the body's ability to cool through sweating, and the need to open cooling centers was high.
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The clean-up continues after severe storms tore through the area Monday night.
Strong wind gusts playing havoc with power lines Saturday causing isolated power outages for thousands of customers throughout our region.
Customers along State Route 309 near the Lima Mall, North Cole Street, and Bluelick Road, and some near Elida lost power just before 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. The Allen County Emergency Management Agency says they were informed it was an equipment issue at a substation. The power is expected to be restored Tuesday evening.
Bystanders pulled the woman from the car, and she was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the other car was also taken to the hospital for minor injuries. Several power poles were hit causing down power lines. At one point, a map of an AEP grid showed more than 2,000 customers without power in that area.
According to LPD, 25 year old Emmanuel Sotorodriguez was traveling east on North St., when he failed to turn with the curve of the road between Charles and Jameson, driving over the curb and striking the pole.
Thousands of people in the area lost power after Wednesday night's storms, but are slowly getting it back as AEP crews work their way around the area. AEP had all of their local crews, as well as some out of town crews, working on getting Lima area residents their electricity back. They say many of the outages are the result of trees and limbs falling on power lines, but that they are having trouble getting to the affected spots.