UPDATE: East Central Energy Restoring Power to Customers

FOLEY - East Central Energy has been slowly getting all of their customers back on line after the early Friday morning thunderstorms.

As of this (Saturday) morning, they still have about 80 customers without power, mostly in Benton and Mille Lacs counties.  They expect power to be restored to them by the end of today.

Immediately after the storm they had about 3,500 customers that were without power.