About 200 people who are customers of Atlantic Municipal Utilities (AMU) are or were without power this morning. A person who answered the phone could not say what the problem was, but she did say crews were out trying to get the power restored as quickly as possible. Residents near 8th and Birch, 12th and Chestnut, and the vicinity of Sycamore and Chestnut Streets were in the dark as of 6:45-a.m.

Winds at the time the outages were initially reported, where gusting from 25-to 45-miles per hour. Other utilities were reporting power outages as well:  Southwest Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative reported 119 customers were without power in Adams County (as of 7-a.m.), 28 were without power in Taylor County, and anywhere from 3-to 5 customers were in the dark in Cass and Montgomery Counties; Mid-American Energy reported scattered outages in Griswold, Lewis, Carbon, Red Oak and Villisca.