BATAVIA, Ohio — The Village of Batavia is closing the Armory on Thursday after power was restored to most of the village, marking the end of a days-long outage that followed severe thunderstorms earlier this week.
Power has been restored to most of the village, though not all customers have their electricity back and Duke Energy crews are still working, the village said in a Facebook post. Residents who still need assistance can call the Batavia Police Department at 513-732-5692, and officers will open the Armory for anyone who needs it, according to the post.
The Armory, the village’s municipal building at 65 N. Second St., had been serving as a cooling and charging center for residents without power since severe storms swept the region Tuesday and knocked out electricity to roughly 40,000 Duke Energy customers across Clermont County. Outage counts around Batavia had fallen from about 27,000 customers Wednesday morning to roughly 11,000 by early Thursday before Thursday’s announcement that power was mostly back.
The building, constructed in 1912 and now home to Batavia’s municipal offices, offered residents a place to cool off, charge devices and get updates while crews worked to restore service circuit by circuit. The village had kept the Armory open for extended hours through the week as the outage dragged on.
“Thank you for your patience through a difficult few days,” the village said in its post. “The way this community looked out for one another during the outage says everything about Batavia.”
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Village of Batavia.