Monday, December 21, 2009
Storm Outages Report
KENTUCKY...
Heavy snow covered much of Kentucky Power´s service territory Friday and Saturday causing extensive damage to power facilities and leading nearly 80,000 customers to lose power. Wet, heavy snow brought down trees and tree branches across power lines and damaged utility poles.
Ashland District, KY: Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence Counties
Hazard District, KY: Breathitt, Knott, Leslie, Perry Counties
Paintsville District, KY: Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan Counties
Pikeville District, KY: Floyd, Pike, Knott Counties
South Williamson District, KY: Morgan, Pike Counties
Whitesburg District, KY: Letcher County
Kentucky Power continues efforts to assess outage cases and restore power. By the end of today, the company is expected to have approximately 1,200 employees working on restoration efforts, including more than 620 linemen, 130 assessors and 110 tree trimming professionals from outside the company. Yesterday, restoration crews restored power to approximately 10,000 customers and have returned 25 percent of the customers originally impacted by the storm to service. Work will continue throughout the day and until all customers have power restored. At this time, the company estimates it will be as late as Sunday, December 27, before all of its customers are returned to service. The vast majority of customers will have their power restored before that date, however. Kentucky Power now offers the following outage restoration estimates:
Ashland District: 95% complete, Midnight, Thursday, 12/24
Hazard District: 95% complete, Sunday, 12/27
Pikeville District: 95% complete, Saturday, 12/26
Paintsville District: 95% complete, Midnight, Monday, 12/21
Whitesburg District: 95% complete, Sunday, 12/27
South Williamson District: 95% complete, Saturday, 12/26
Kentucky Power appreciates the patience and understanding of its customers as it works to restore power as safely and soon as possible. (Kentucky Power Press Release)
Heavy snow covered much of Kentucky Power´s service territory Friday and Saturday causing extensive damage to power facilities and leading nearly 80,000 customers to lose power. Wet, heavy snow brought down trees and tree branches across power lines and damaged utility poles.
Ashland District, KY: Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence Counties
Hazard District, KY: Breathitt, Knott, Leslie, Perry Counties
Paintsville District, KY: Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan Counties
Pikeville District, KY: Floyd, Pike, Knott Counties
South Williamson District, KY: Morgan, Pike Counties
Whitesburg District, KY: Letcher County
Kentucky Power continues efforts to assess outage cases and restore power. By the end of today, the company is expected to have approximately 1,200 employees working on restoration efforts, including more than 620 linemen, 130 assessors and 110 tree trimming professionals from outside the company. Yesterday, restoration crews restored power to approximately 10,000 customers and have returned 25 percent of the customers originally impacted by the storm to service. Work will continue throughout the day and until all customers have power restored. At this time, the company estimates it will be as late as Sunday, December 27, before all of its customers are returned to service. The vast majority of customers will have their power restored before that date, however. Kentucky Power now offers the following outage restoration estimates:
Ashland District: 95% complete, Midnight, Thursday, 12/24
Hazard District: 95% complete, Sunday, 12/27
Pikeville District: 95% complete, Saturday, 12/26
Paintsville District: 95% complete, Midnight, Monday, 12/21
Whitesburg District: 95% complete, Sunday, 12/27
South Williamson District: 95% complete, Saturday, 12/26
Kentucky Power appreciates the patience and understanding of its customers as it works to restore power as safely and soon as possible. (Kentucky Power Press Release)
# posted by Homer Owens @ 2:47 PM 
