KENTUCKY (WOWK) – Kentucky Electricity officers say support restoration efforts are virtually finish immediately after extreme storms that swept via northeastern Kentucky left extra than 12,000 of their buyers without having electrical power.
Enterprise officers say crews have exceeded their preliminary restoration plans and have 95% of support restored a working day previously than envisioned.
According to Kentucky Power’s outage map, as of 1:15 p.m. Friday, April 5, there are 321 outages in their protection spot. Of those, are in WOWK’s viewing region.
The organization says Boyd County has 112 outages, Carter County has 36 outages, Elliott County has less than 5 outages, Greenup County has 82 outages, Lawrence County has 46 outages, Lewis County has considerably less than 5 outages and Pike County has 11 outages. Kentucky Energy is not reporting any outages for their consumers in Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, or Martin counties.
Officials say crews found “significant damage” in their distribution process, which incorporates damaged polls, spans of downed wire, damaged crossarms and various identified trees. They are presently performing to assess all of the damage.
For a lot more particular facts about outages impacting their location, customers can subscribe to the company’s outage notify system or download their app. Customers can also report outages at 1-800-572-1113.
Kentucky Electricity is reminding people to continue to be absent from downed energy traces as they can have an electrical present-day that can bring about significant and lethal accidents. If you see a downed energy line, get in touch with 911 and your energy enterprise quickly.