Columbia Gas has provided a list of hotels they are working with to provide temporary housing for those affected by the gas outage:
- Country Inn & Suites by Radisson - 645 Griswold Rd
- Homewood Suite by Hilton Cleveland/Sheffield - 4930 Transportation Dr.
- Hampton Inn & Suites Elyria - 1795 Lorain Blvd.
- La Quinta Inn & Suites Cleveland Airport West - 25105 Country Club Blvd.
- Days Inn Wyndham Elyria - 1825 Lorain Blvd. (pet friendly)
- Fairfield Inn & Suites Clevelan Avon - 39050 Colorado Ave
- Woodspring Suites Cleveland Avon - 1610 Moore Rd
- Best Western Inn Elyria - 636 Griswold Rd
- Courtyard Elyria - 1755 Travelers Lane
- Quality Inn Elyria - 739 Leona St.
- Holiday Inn Express Cleveland Vermillion - 2417 OH-60
- Days Inn Cleveland Lakewood - 12019 Lake Ave
- Hotel Oberlin - 10 College St.
- Motel 6 Celveland West-Lorain-Amherst - 704 N Leavitt Rd
- Aloft Cleveland Airport - 5550 Great Northern Blvd
- Radisson Hotel Cleveland Airport West - 25070 Country Club Blvd
- Best Western Airport Inn & Suites Cleveland - 16501 Snow Road
- Hampton Inn North Olmsted Cleveland Airport - 24601 Country Club Blvd
Elyrians interested in making other housing arrangements at a hotel may call at 1-800-915-9161 or email ohlodging@nisource.com . The shelter established at Eastern Heights Junior High School - 528 Garford Avenue will remain open until service has been restored to all three zones.
THE UPDATE FROM EARLIER FRIDAY WITH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ZONES IS BELOW:
The below information is the latest update as of NOON on Friday November 30, 2018 regarding the Elyria gas outage situation. Columbia Gas is working to restore approximately 2,100 customers currently without natural gas service.
At this time, there are an estimated 240 Columbia employees and third-party contractors in Elyria assisting with the restoration efforts.
The first step in this process is to shut off service to all affected properties, which has been completed. The next step is to purge the system to remove all air from the lines. After this has been completed, we will slowly reintroduce gas to the system and our technicians will go door-to-door and manually re-establish service to our customers.
In an effort to re-establish service in the most efficient way possible, Columbia Gas has divided the affected area into three (3) zones, which are outlined on the map attached to this email. Columbia Gas is working to re-establish service to Zone Blue (1) first, followed by Zones Yellow (2) and Pink (3).
Zone 1 - Blue
Zone 2 - Yellow
Zone 3 - Pink
Although they cannot give a specific time for when each zone will be restored, they hope to have customers in Zones Blue (1) and Yellow (2) restored by the end of the day. Unfortunately, customers in Zone Pink (3) will likely not have service until Saturday (12/1). Consequently, Columbia is targeting communications to customers in Zone Pink (3) encouraging them to find additional housing arrangements for the evening. (Columbia will reimburse customers for all reasonable housing and meals throughout the outage.)
Elyrians interested in making other housing arrangements at a hotel may call at 1-800-272-5440 or email ohlodging@nisource.com . Another option is a shelter that has been established at Eastern Heights Junior High School - 528 Garford Avenue.
