Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert, city officials and OPPD hosted a press conference on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, to update the public after storms impacted the Omaha area Wednesday night.
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The powerful storm that packed hurricane-like 90 mph wind gusts knocked out power to 218,332 OPPD residential and business customers across eastern Nebraska. That’s more than half of the utility’s entire customer base of 412,000.
Ramen Oliver, a North Omaha resident who operates FAF Catering, sought to help people who remain without electricity by giving away free hot dogs, bottles of water and chips.
After massive storms Wednesday night, that including wind speeds up to 100 mph, more than 167,000 customers remained without power Thursday morning in the Omaha metro.
