SALT LAKE CITY — A winter storm with powerful winds and snow in some areas has knocked out power for several thousand Utahns.
Around 1:30 p.m., Rocky Mountain Power reported that there were more than 7,300 customers without electricity. The majority of those outages were clustered in Weber and Salt Lake counties.
By the evening, there were just over 4,000 outages — around 150 in the town of Eden, around 1,500 in the Rose Park and Fairpark neighborhoods of Salt Lake City, about 1,000 more throughout the Salt Lake Valley, and around 1,700 in Utah County.
Then by late Saturday night, nearly all had been restored with the exception of about 400 in the Salt Lake Valley.
"Heavy snowfall and strong winds causing widespread outages across our service territory," the company wrote on its website. "Rocky Mountain Power line crews continue their work assessing and restoring service to customers across our service territory. We appreciate your patience as our crews work around the clock to restore power interruptions."
This article will be updated as the status of power outages changes throughout the day.
