Power out across large parts of Ellis Co., I-70 closed as storm blows through Tuesday

As a large storm blew through Hays Tuesday evening storm damage was being reported across town with power lines down, debris littered across roads, flooding and about 6,200 without power around 9 p.m.

“As you can imagine we have a fair amount of damage across the county,” said Mike Morley, director of communications, Midwest Energy.

“There is also a fair amount of debris in the street,” he said.

“We have crews out right now doing damage assessments, trying to find where those wires are down, so we ask people to call in their outages to our 800 number.”

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