Tens of thousands of PGE customers without power Wednesday morning around Portland and Salem after stormy weather

(KPTV) – According to Portland General Electric, more than 80,000 households were without power early Wednesday morning.

As of 4:40 a.m., the following number of power outages were reported across the metro area counties:

• Clackamas: 101 outages with 39,837 customers affected
• Marion: 44 outages with 8,412 customers affected
• Multnomah: 65 outages with 10,857 customers affected
• Polk: 6 outages with 262 customers affected
• Washington: 53 outages with 19,860 customers affected
• Yamhill: 18 outages with 1,310 customers affected

In total, PGE reported 287 outages, which were impacting service for 80,538 customers.

The power outages follow a day of eventful, stormy weather Tuesday.

It's now officially the wettest day in 3+ years in Portland; we just passed the 1.50" mark this past hour. We had two relatively dry winters = makeup time! @fox12oregon pic.twitter.com/Yrtk96P69X

— Mark Nelsen (@MarkNelsenKPTV) January 13, 2021

By 6:30 a.m., power had be restored to about 18,000 affected customers. 

Check the live PGE outage map for updates here.