This has been the most amazing and fast power outage repair considering the fact that 125,000 homes were cut off from electricity one week ago Friday and that many power lines down were tangled around fallen trees. I was one of those enduring the outage. It was great to hear that Kansas City and other fire departments came up to assist our own Omaha Public Power District.

I want to thank ALL of these workers and those who manned the information centers and assignments because these electrical repairmen (or repairwomen?) left their homes, stayed with all of us in Omaha for a solid week, missing the Fourth of July holiday yesterday on top of all else that they had sacrificed for us. It was a tremendous feat and we appreciate our city and the other city or state units so very much. It was a great comfort after being blasted with severe weather week after week after an equally rough ice winter this year.

As of yesterday, "just a few" homes remained without power, homes where the repairs require the rebuilding of larger outside structures.