Damaging winds and intermittent thunderstorms swept through the Treasure Valley on Wednesday evening, leaving thousands of residents without power across the Treasure Valley.
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Two significant outages were reported in Nampa, where a large section of downtown was left without electricity, including approximately 2,067 Idaho Power customers. The area around the Karcher Mall is also experiencing an outage, with another 1,451 utility customers affected.
Crews are on site and responding to both outages. Idaho Power hopes to return power to Downtown Nampa by 9:30 p.m.
Downed trees on power lines appear to be the main source of the outages…