***UPDATE 11:20: UNC officials say power has been restored to “much” of campus and that the university is working with Duke Energy to restore remaining outages.***

***UPDATE 11:08: UNC tweeted that power has been restored to “some parts of campus.” No word on when it will be fully restored.***

A powerful storm moved through Chapel Hill early Monday and knocked out power to at least a portion of the UNC campus.

The university tweeted that it was aware of the outage and was working to get more information.

UNC’s weather monitoring service said that rain was falling at a rate of more than two inches per hour and that lightning struck within five miles of the campus.

The Duke Energy is not showing any major outages in the area. More information will be provided as it is made available.

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