Power had been restored by Tuesday morning to most of the 5,800 Flathead Cooperative members who lost electricity during a spring windstorm Monday evening.

By 8:30 a.m., only 273 customers still were without power.

According to Co-op spokeswoman Wendy Ostrom-Price, the outages were typical, caused by trees falling on power lines.

"This time of year you do get the wind and the lightning," Ostrom-Price said. "But we get various [damaging] weather systems throughout the year."

She said the first reports of lines down came in at about 6:45 p.m., with outages peaking between 7 and 8 p.m. Evergreen was the hardest hit, and outages were also seen in Kalispell, Bigfork, and the Echo Lake and Lake Blaine areas.

As of 9 p.m., power had been restored to approximately 1,100 members. All eight of the co-op's repair crews were hard at work late into the night.