UPDATE: Power restored to Wild Rice Electric customers
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Published: Dec. 29, 2021 at 8:29 AM CST
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. (Valley News Live) - On a brutally cold morning, a few dozen people in Becker County were without power.
The Wild Rice Electric Cooperative outage map showed as many as 80 households without power at one point on Wednesday morning. The impacted customers were north of Detroit Lakes and east of Highway 59.
Temperatures in that area on Wednesday morning were around -20, making it an uncomfortable morning to be without heat.
Power has since been restored. No word yet on what caused the outage. You can view the Wild Rice Electric outage map HERE.
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