Overview

• Destructive winds and hail from Sunday’s storms toppled large trees across the Twin Cities metro and western Wisconsin, with gusts up to 74 mph reported in Kasson and 70 mph in Rochester.
• As of Tuesday morning, more than 90,000 Minnesota customers remained without power, even after Xcel Energy restored electricity to over 85% of affected customers by Monday afternoon.
• Xcel Energy has over 1,000 workers and contractors in the field, focusing first on outages affecting large numbers of customers while acknowledging that scattered smaller outages may take longer to repair.
• Residents spent a second day clearing debris under mostly sunny skies and light north winds, working around downed trees and power lines.
• Xcel Energy and the National Weather Service are monitoring for additional storms and officials have urged people to report downed or sagging power lines via the company’s outage hotline.