SOUTHEASTERN IN — The area was hit by strong-to-severe storms Monday afternoon.
A tree on the Hillcrest Golf Course in Batesville that was along a fence line next to a house was knocked down and took out power lines in the Walnut Street area near Kipper.
Power was interrupted to a number of Duke Energy residential and business customers south of I-74. Batesville police officers and firefighters directed traffic at the intersection of state roads 46 and 229 when the traffic lights went out.
Parts of downtown Batesville were affected by high winds Monday. The area north of East Pearl Street and east of Main Street was without power from about 5:45 until 8:05 pm, which forced businesses without electricity to close early.
Power was restored to everyone in the Duke, Southeastern Indiana REMC, and Decatur County REMC service areas who were affected by storm-related outages by late Monday-early Tuesday.
A number of roads around Franklin County were blocked by downed trees and limbs.
Franklin County 911 Dispatch was extremely busy taking calls and crews worked much of Tuesday afternoon into early Wednesday clearing the affected areas.
Warnings to avoid low water crossings around the county were issued at the height of the storms.
There were no injuries reported as a result of Monday’s storms
