Power restored to more than 1700 Westar customers this morning

Updated: 4:04 a.m.

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According to Westar Energy’s website, power has been restored to more than 1700 Douglas County customers who were without service for a time early Monday.

Around midnight, the website showed just under 500 outages. By 12:40 a.m. that number had jumped to more than 1700. The bulk of the outages were in North Lawrence.

Power was fully restored to all Douglas County customers before 4 a.m..

There was no word on what caused the outages.

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