Crow Wing Power Outages

Crow Wing Power Spokeswoman Char Kinzer said about 1800 electricity customers were without power at 9:30p Thursday night. High winds and heavy, wet snowfall were responsible. Kinzer said crews worked overnight and by 7am Friday morning, there were still roughly 600 isolated customers without power, primarily east and west of Brainerd and some north of Baxter. Kinzer said extra crews have been hired to return everyone to the power grid.