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Friday storms leave much of W.Va. in the dark

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A strong line of thunderstorms Friday evening took its toll on much of West Virginia. The wide-spread storm activity caused power outages from the southern coalfields all the way to Wheeling.

The worst of the storms seemed to be situated on the Route 50 corridor from Parkersburg across north-central West Virginia.

Appalachian Power was dealing with just over 2,100 outages on Saturday morning. The bulk of those outages were in Kanawha and Cabell Counties.

However, the worst outages were in the northern part of the state where Mon Power and Potomac Edison had combined total of more than 12,000 outages at the height of the storm’s aftermath.

Wood County had 2,700 outages. The numbers were similar in nearby Tyler County at 1,200, Wetzel County with 1,500, and another 1,000 in Marion County. There were 700 outages in Doddridge County while in Pleasants and Wirt County nearly 20 percent of both counties was in the dark. Pendleton County saw about 16 percent of it’s power knocked out by the storms’ winds.

Crews are working today to make the necessary repairs.





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