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Eau Claire (WQOW) - Xcel Energy employees from Eau Claire are headed south to help restore power. Nearly 2,000 customers in Madison are in the dark, a crew left this morning. They'll join up with Madison gas and electric workers.

Another group is headed to Iowa where storm clean up is also underway, about 95-hundred homes and businesses in the De Moines area are without power.

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