About 6,000 customers across Tucson remain without power today as Tucson Electric Power works to fix two transformers damaged by Wednesday night’s storm.
Out of those customers, the majority live in an area bounded by Sunrise Drive to the north, Craycroft Road on the east, Mountain Avenue on the west and Pima Street to the south.
TEP spokesman Joe Salkowski said he did not know exactly how many of the customers lived within those boundaries.
About 35,000 TEP customers lost power during Wednesday night’s storm.
Twenty-six poles were knocked down across the city, including about a dozen near East River Road and North Dodge Boulevard, he said.
TEP has set up a water and ice distribution center at a Bashas’ supermarket shopping center at East Camp Lowell Drive and North Swan Road.
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Some area school districts were affected by the power outages.
Students at Catalina High School were sent home at 12:15 p.m. after the power went out at 10:30 a.m., said Karen Bynum, a TUSD spokeswoman.
Only 40 students showed up at Davidson Elementary School for class after school staff called parents and let them know the school had no power, Bynum said.
The students were served cold bag lunches, she said.
Fifteen classrooms at the school were damaged by water from the storm, she said.
The Catalina Foothills School District headquarters did not have any power when employees showed up for work this morning, said Facilities Director Basil Callimanis.
The power has not been restored to the district office, Callimanis said.
No other Catalina Foothills schools suffered from power outages or water damage, he said.
∫ Contact reporter Jamar Younger at 434-4076 or jyounger @azstarnet.com.
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