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20,836 still without power following intense storms

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UPDATE: May 17 at 6:23 p.m.

According to PowerOutage.us, there are still 20,836 Kentuckians without power.

UPDATE: May 17 at 6:23 p.m.

According to PowerOutage.us, there are still 56,202 Kentuckians without power.

UPDATE: May 17 at 12:49 p.m.

According to Governor Beshear, outages are down to 83,338 since Saturday morning as crews are hard at work restoring power.

Original Story:

Governor Andy Beshear reported that as of 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, 100,476 Kentuckians are still without power following an intense overnight storm that ravaged the state.

According to PowerOutage.us, which tracks power outages across the United States.

LG&E and KU report that almost 58,000 of their customers are without power across Kentucky.

Big Sandy RECC, Farmers RECC, Kentucky Power, Licking Valley RECC, Pennyrile Electric, Tri-County EMC, and Warren RECC repordetly have some of the highest number of outages.

As of 2:15 a.m.:

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PowerOutage.us numbers on current power outages.