Broken Bow, Ne - An explosion was reported around 6:30am Thursday morning at the Broken Bow Power Plant. The Broken Bow City Administrator is calling it a "catastrophic system failure". Broken Bow like many communities across the region had temperatures near -30 this morning.

Most of the town was without power this morning. Broken Bow Pubic Power says power has been restored to much of the community, but there are still portions of Broken Bow without power as of 10am Central Time.