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Power crews making progress; most service expected back by Thursday night

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Appalachian Power Company lost a day in its service restoration efforts when another strong storm moved through south central and southern West Virginia Tuesday evening.

The company had almost cut outages totaling 35,000 customers from Monday in half when the new storm hit, sending the numbers back up, spokesman Phil Moye said.

“The ground was really saturated with moisture and so these two wind storms that we had Monday and Tuesday uprooted a lot of trees. They were in that soft ground and when the winds came it brought them over (into power lines and poles),” Moye said.

Appalachian Power expected to make significant repairs Wednesday and finish up the bulk of the work in 18 counties by Thursday night, Moye said. The company has 500 additional linemen in the state with crews from Virginia ready to roll-in once storm damage is cleaned up there.

Moye said there were 900 different locations in West Virginia where repairs had to be made.

“Each repair doesn’t necessarily equate to getting a certain number of customers back. What it really means is we have a lot of physical work in front of us and fortunately we have the crews in here to do that,” he said.

As of 3 p.m. Wednesday the company had just less than 17,000 customers in West Virginia without service.





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