ELYRIA — Power came back on about 7:30 a.m. for downtown Elyria.

Most of downtown was without power for about four hours, starting about 3:30 a.m., according to the Elyria Fire Department. School has been canceled for Elyria High, but all other Elyria schools will be in session today, according to the district.

The outage was caused by wind knocking down wires at East and Depot streets, according to Ohio Edison..

At the time of the outage, Ohio Edison told the Fire Department power should be out about three or four hours. The Police Department said Ohio Edison declined to predict when power would be restored, saying they were operating in “storm mode.”

Fire Station 1 reported about 6 a.m. it was up and running under emergency power.

The Police Department had put out stop signs at a number of downtown intersections “as a courtesy” but stressed that the law requires that nonfunctioning traffic signals be treated as four-way stops. Officers were in the process of putting out flares at other interesections, according to the department.

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