About 130,000 Duquesne Light and Allegheny Power customers lost their electricity last night as the remnants of Hurricane Ike swept up the Ohio Valley.

It was an odd storm:

Wind gusts of up to 79 mph, 5 mph higher than hurricane force, were reported, but there was little rainfall. Pockets of homes lost power, but homes a few blocks away did not.

For instance, in the city, power was out in some parts of Shadyside but not in Highland Park.

It was dark in some neighborhoods of Sewickley, but on the city's North Side, Steelers fans were not inconvenienced at all -- the power never went out.

In some neighborhoods, cable service was lost a half hour before the electricity went out about 8:30 p.m., or 15 minutes after the start of the Steelers-Browns game in Cleveland.

A recording at Comcast said cable service was disrupted in multiple areas due to high winds. Duquesne Light said most of its outages were caused by limbs and trees falling onto power lines.

The National Weather Service said what was left of Hurricane Ike, which battered the Texas coast on Saturday, caused the problems.

Meteorologist Terry Parrish said the 79 mph wind gust was reported at the Beaver County Airport.

Gusts of up to 67 mph were reported in Allegheny County. A high-wind warning remained in effect throughout the region until 4 a.m. today.

No widespread damage or injuries had been reported as of midnight. Police in many communities reported wires and tree debris down on streets and highways.

Joanne Jenny, spokeswoman for Allegheny County Airport Authority, said she knew of no flights being diverted or delayed at the airport because of strong winds.

But a worker at airport operations said the airport got a few flights that had been bound for other cities but had to land here because of bad weather at their destinations.

Duquesne Light spokesman Joseph Vallarian said about 98,000 customers were without power late last night. He said the largest concentration of outages were in Center, Hopewell, Monaca, Hampton, McCandless and Ross.

Mr. Vallarian also said parts of Shadyside and Oakland in Pittsburgh were without power, as were homes and businesses in Penn Hills, Green Tree, Beechview and Shaler.

"It's a moving target," he said.

Janice Lantz, a spokeswoman for Allegheny Power, said about 32,000 of its customers were without power. She said 13,000 of those were in Washington County, 6,000 in Westmoreland County and 9,000 in Butler County.

Butler County seemed to be hard hit.

"Trees are down on houses, blocking streets, on top of cars,'' said a police dispatcher in Cranberry. "We're trying to prioritize based on the severity of damage."