Power outage impacts hundreds in Morris County

MORRIS COUNTY (KSNT) - Hundreds of Evergy customers are without power in Morris County Thursday morning.

Two large outages are being reported through Evergy's outage map for an area in Morris County on May 16. This area includes Council Grove, Wilsey and Dunlap.

The outage for Council Grove is impacting a little more than 1,200 Evergy customers while a separate, but nearby, outage is impacting around 450 Evergy customers. Both outages were first reported around 9:30 a.m. on May 16 and have restoration times set for 11 a.m. The cause of the outages is not being reported by Evergy at this time.

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