Hundreds were without power for about an hour and Council Bluffs residents were dealing with flooding Monday afternoon after storms rolled through Douglas and surrounding counties.
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Omaha Public Power District reported that trees falling onto power lines were responsible for electricity outages for about 680 customers in Douglas and Washington counties.
Tree limbs cleared from power lines, service restored to 680 customers - https://t.co/GV1a9iaFtu
— OPPDCares (@OPPDCares) June 18, 2018
Further outages were reported in the Omaha-metro. As of 8:15 p.m., 377 OPPD customers in the Omaha area and 439 MidAmerican Energy customers in the Council Bluffs area were without power.
Flooding was reported in parts of Council Bluffs, and authorities were advising drivers to stay off water-covered roads.
It’s flooding pretty much all over CB. We can’t block every intersection or roadway. Stay home or stay put. We are not issued boats and Tahoes don’t float.
— LT Budd (@CBLtBudd) June 18, 2018
Many cars turning around when they approached 9th Ave. by 10th St. intersection. This is why. @3NewsNowOmaha pic.twitter.com/tvRYi5eHB9
— Maya Saenz - KMTV (@Maya_Reports) June 19, 2018
The storm also caused another delay at the College World Series.
UPDATE: The press box PA says the NCAA will re-evaluate the weather situation at 5:30 p.m. CT #CWS #CWS2018
— Omaha Sports Insider (@OSIsports) June 18, 2018
UPDATE: Still no update. Will reconvene at 6:30 p.m.
— Omaha Sports Insider (@OSIsports) June 18, 2018
While Oregon and Washington waited for their game to resume, the teams' Twitter accounts decided to pass the time playing a virtual game of Tic-Tac-Toe.
The game was slated to resume at 7:45 p.m., the NCAA said following its 6:30 p.m. meeting.
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