Northeast Ohioans coping with outages nearly a week later [Video]

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) – Nearly a week after powerful storms and tornadoes ripped through Northeast Ohio, thousands remained without power, hoping restoration crews would make good on their projection to have mostly everyone back online before Wednesday, August 14.

“It has been challenging, especially for the households that lost power on Tuesday night. For some folks, they are looking at six days now without power, which is an incredible amount of time. We are so used to having electricity, having energy, having refrigeration,” said University Heights Mayor Michael Dylan Brennan.

The University Heights community was down to only 205 customers still without power on Sunday, but on Monday morning several hundred more woke up in the dark after another transformer blew.

“Today we had a transformer blow over by Gearity Elementary School that took down a couple hundred homes there, a few hundred. We are back to over 600 homes right now …