Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Storm Outages Update
KENTUCKY....
Kentucky Power continues to assess outage cases and restore power. More than 1,300 employees are working on restoration efforts, including more than 625 linemen, 130 assessors and 100 tree trimming professionals from outside the company. Restoration crews have restored power to more than 36,000 customers, returning more than 45 percent of the customers originally impacted by the storm to service. Work will continue 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, tonight
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)
Kentucky Power continues to assess outage cases and restore power. More than 1,300 employees are working on restoration efforts, including more than 625 linemen, 130 assessors and 100 tree trimming professionals from outside the company. Restoration crews have restored power to more than 36,000 customers, returning more than 45 percent of the customers originally impacted by the storm to service. Work will continue 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, tonight
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 @ 1:10 PM 
