6:35 a.m. Dec. 17, 2025

Over 3,300 Douglas Electric Cooperative members lost power early Wednesday morning, but the utility has managed to get power restored to more than half of its customers.

Phil Bigler with Douglas Electric said that a wide-scale outage was reported around 2:30 a.m. affecting all customers in Drain, Elkton and Scottsburg, with a large number of members in Lookingglass and Melrose areas also affected. A small number of Co-op member were also without power in the Tenmile Lake, Lower Smith River and Camas Valley areas.

Crews were able to restore power to the Lookingglass and Melrose areas by 5:15 a.m. and the Drain substation was re-energized around 5:20 a.m.

Bigler reports that more than 1,400 customers were still without power as of 5:30 a.m.