More than 107,000 AEP customers in central Ohio were without power as of late afternoon March 13 – including nearly 70,000 in Franklin County – as high winds pummeled much of the state.
In Delaware County, there were just more than 15,000 customers without power. In Licking County, over 17,000 customers nad no power, many in Newark and Granville. Fairfield County had almost 5,400 customers without electricity from the strong northwest winds, AEP’s outage map showed.
Columbus, Franklin County, all other central Ohio counties and two-thirds of the state from Pickaway and Fairfield counties north to Lake Erie and the Michigan line were under a high wind advisory until 8 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington…