

To her knowledge, she said, no roadways were closed due to fallen trees or power lines. "Trees and limbs are down all over," McKinney told the Journal-News. Many of the surrounding businesses, restaurants and banks near the Kroger at the Yankee and Cincinnati-Dayton Road intersection were also without power Tuesday morning.Ĭaroline McKinney, spokeswoman for Liberty Twp., said Tuesday's clean up from the storm continued and she urged residents to call Duke Energy and not township officials to report power outages. "I have to go somewhere else," Wheeler said. "And now I just got a call from my neighbor that her husband was out picking up roof shingles that blew off last night," Edwards said.įellow, would-be Kroger customer and township resident Marion Wheeler said she suspected something was wrong when first pulling into the rarely empty store parking lot.

resident Deborah Edwards said her home lost power last night and she was hoping to get some food from the store. The work to return the store to normal had some customers frustrated near Kroger's main door. Tuesday, though a Kroger employee told the Journal-News they needed time to move frozen and refrigerated merchandise back to its shelving and to rest store systems to be operational later in the day. Store officials were using refrigerated trucks to preserve foods and beverages from spoiling while waiting for power to be restored. 14-Several businesses and homes throughout Butler County lost power after severe storms hit on Monday, and Kroger on Yankee Road was no exception.
