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January 4 2007 - Utility officials said on Wednesday that damage from the weekend ice storm in central Nebraska is so extensive that they can not give a clear indication when power will be restored.
Thousands of power poles, hundreds of transformers, hundreds of miles of line and nearly 100 substations were damaged by the storm last Friday and an estimated 15,000 customers are still without power, six days after outages began. The damage, estimated at around some $50m, stretched across 29 central Nebraska counties, from the Kansas border to South Dakota.
Jeanne Scheiffer, of the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) said: "It's hard to gauge whether [the restoration of power] will be a week, two weeks or a month. It depends on conditions."
Ron Asche, president of NNPD, added because damage to the state's electrical grid is so extensive, most communities without power would have their electricity restored via industrial-size generators. Several hundred gas powered generators were reported to have sold to private residents.
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