OHIO — Thousands of Ohio residents are without electricity Saturday afternoon as scattered power outages were reported across the state, according to the latest outage tracking data.
As of Saturday afternoon, 6,009 homes and businesses are without power in Ohio. That represents approximately 0.11% of the 5,364,685 customers tracked statewide. The outage figures were updated within minutes of the report.
Compared nationally, Ohio ranked fourth among U.S. states for the total number of current power outages and ninth for the percentage of customers affected…