Thousands of MidAmerican Energy customers briefly lost electricity service at the same time storms were in our area Tuesday morning, September 8, 2015.
The outages were reported in the area of Eastern Avenue and Interstate 80 just before 9 a.m.
More than 4,000 total outages were reported in the Iowa Quad Cities, including a few dozen in Bettendorf and more than 3,900 in Davenport.
The outages coincided with brief, strong storms moving through that area.
Service was restored by about 10 a.m. to all but about 50 customers in the outage area, according to MidAmerican Energy.