Kootenai Electric Cooperative hit by microburst

Around 10 p.m. on Sunday, Kootenai Electric Cooperative was hit by a local microburst or tornado between the Setter's Substation and Highway 95 in Worley.

About 20 poles within 1.3 miles were destroyed. Although crews were in the area preparing for a planned outage, no one was injured.

About 600 KEC members had outages at the height of Saturday's storm, and a remaining 325 still had no electricity by early this morning.

Electricity restoration is expected to continue through late this afternoon.

For any questions, call 765-1200.