A lot of you in Doniphan County woke up to a power outage Thursday.

A storm system packing high winds moved through the area during the five o’clock hour.

By about 6:15 am, voltage dropped dramatically across the Doniphan County Electric Coop service area.

Power was restored in some areas by 8am.

Coop manager Arlen Mitchell says the problem originated with Westar’s transmission feed into the coop area. Mitchell says they have redundant power feeds from Westar, and when the problem was figured out, Westar switched to the other feed.

The outages were spotty. A dispatcher for the Doniphan County Sheriff’s Office said their facilities in Troy never lost power.

There were outages northwest and southeast of Troy. Some apparently unrelated outages were reported in Wathena.

Westar Energy crews also had to restore power to about 1,300 customers in the Topeka area.