Due to the impact of Hurricane Helene, Ohio currently has 65,514 customers without power, including 3,680 in Clinton County, according to AES Ohio.

Friday’s storm brought gusting winds that reached 40 to nearly 70 mph throughout the area. There were numerous reports of downed trees and limbs. According to the US National Weather Service Wilmington, the highest wind gust for Clinton County was 67 mph.

This was a heavy strike and restoration may take longer than some people may be used to, according to the Clinton County Emergency Management Agency.

Hurricane Helene caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S. as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers went into the weekend without any power and for some a continued threat of floods.

Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday packing winds of 140 mph (225 kph) and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.