COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Tens of thousands of Ohioans remain without power after strong storms moved through the region Tuesday afternoon, toppling trees and power lines.

According to the AEP outage map, 37,156 customers are without power as of 11 a.m. Jefferson County in eastern Ohio appears to be the hardest hit, with more than 15,500 outages reported.

For most outages, at this point, AEP’s outage map is not offering restoration estimates.

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Further south, South Central Power is reporting 1,971 customers, the bulk of which remain in Belmont and Harrison counties in southeast Ohio.

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AEP Ohio Operations Manager Dylan Brown said the power supplier has meteorologists on staff who monitor storms like Tuesday’s weather more than 24 hours in advance, and that AEP has plenty of boots on the ground.

“We have over a thousand line, tree, and internal personnel right now, supporting those efforts, and then we have other crews that will be traveling first thing in the morning from other areas to those heavily impacted areas to help restoration as well,” Brown said.

He said AEP has 40 service centers in 61 different counties in Ohio, so it’s ready whenever a storm hits, and he said safety is always the top priority.

“If you see a downed power line or tree laying on something, it looks like it might be a power line, stay away from it and anything that it’s touching,” Brown said.

Trees down across central Ohio

A tree fell on top of a power line in the area of North High Street and East Northwood Avenue, causing a power pole to snap, according to firefighters. People are being kept away from the area due to the risk of the pole falling.

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Storm damage in Fairfield County

Fairfield County was not spared from downed trees and lost power due to the storms.

Jon Kochis, emergency management director for Fairfield County, said straight-line windgusts at the county airport in Carroll reached 59 miles per hour. These winds were the reason for the downed trees and power poles, as well as power outages.

While there was not a lot of structural damage to report, it’s the sudden onset of the high winds that can make these storms dangerous.

“When that wind gust comes through on that frontal boundary, it really does havoc on a lot of the structures, like trees or signs or anything that could be blown away relatively easily,” Kochis said. “This time of the year, with the saturation in the ground, trees are really susceptible to just come out, root and all.”