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Update: Power has been restored to Duke Energy customers who were impacted by the outage.

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RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. -- Thousands of Duke Energy customers are without power in Randolph County.

According to the Duke Energy outage map, nearly 14,000 customers are without power at this time. Some customers in southern Guilford County have also been impacted by the outage.

Tammie McGee with Duke Energy says the outage was caused by trees falling onto power lines.

Power is expected to be restored by 3 p.m.

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