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Rocky Mountain Power worked Friday to restored the last of numerous, scattered electrical service outages left in the wake of Thursday's hurricane-force winds, even as public works crews cleaned up debris and fallen trees throughout the Wasatch Front.
Still without power as of dawn Friday were an estimated 1,100 residential and business customers — about 600 combined in the Salt Lake City and Big Cottonwood areas. By 3:45 p.m., all of the outages had been fixed.
The Big Cottonwood Canyon outage left Solitude ski resort without power throughout the day, while Brighton ski resort was back on the electrical grid by 1:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, service was restored by late Friday morning to some 500 homes in the south-central Utah town of Panguitch.
Another outage, affecting dozens of homes in Cedar City, ended as service was restored about 5 a.m. Friday.
More than 12,000 Utahns had been affected by wind-related outages on Thursday, as gusts topping 80 mph toppled trees into power lines and damaged substations in Salt Lake, Summit, Wasatch, Utah, Tooele and Grand counties.
Gusting winds also collapsed scaffolding on a four-story, senior housing building under construction in east Salt Lake City, closing down a stretch of Foothill Drive for several hours Thursday morning.
In Tooele, winds uprooted several 100-year-old trees in the city's cemetery. Tooele dispatchers briefly transferred 911 calls to Utah County, under an emergency services plan. Utah County dispatchers then relayed information back via radio and cellphones.
Area ski resorts also briefly closed with some runs and lifts as the winds tore through the region.
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