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About 18% of Memphis Light, Gas and Water customers remained without power Sunday at 6:30 p.m., totaling over 76,000 residences and businesses.

Saturday evening’s “bow echo” storm intensified suddenly over Memphis, officials have said. The storm’s winds, estimated between 60 and 80 miles per hour, snapped trees and downed power lines. 

That left about 140,000 MLGW customers without power at the peak of reported outages, MLGW CEO Doug McGowen told reporters Sunday afternoon.

The storm “wreaked havoc” on the city, he said, setting a record for the seventh-most outage minutes in the utility’s history. Additional crews are expected to restore power to all customers by Thursday evening, he said.

Some 39 schools across the county remained without power, McGown said then, including five private schools. It was not immediately clear how many of the 34 schools were MSCS-run schools, or how many total schools lost power over the weekend.

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Collierville Schools delay start times

Collierville Schools will have a two-hour delay after storms swept through the Mid-South Saturday evening, leaving thousands of residents without power.

Collierville High School students will report to school at 9:30 a.m. Both middle schools will start at 10:15 a.m. and the elementary schools will begin at 11 a.m. Dismissal will occur at the regularly scheduled times.

Houston Middle School’s power was restored by Sunday evening, so Germantown Municipal School District students will follow a regular schedule.

Arlington, Bartlett, Lakeland and Millington said their campuses had power, and school would have a normal schedule Monday.