BECKLEY, W.Va. — There’s still work for Appalachian Power crews to do in southern West Virginia Sunday to get power restored to homes and businesses knocked off service in Thursday’s ice storm.
The company reported Saturday evening that it still had 5,800 customers without service in West Virginia. Most of those in Raleigh (3,163) and Mercer (1,340) counties.
Most Mercer County customers were expected to have service restored by late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Appalachian Power said it will be late Sunday night before all of the power is back in parts of Fayette, Raleigh and Summers counties.
According to a company statement statement:
“Efforts are now concentrated on the smaller outages that are often in difficult locations and where the most damage has been sustained. Assessors have recorded around 80 broken poles and 700 spans of wire down. Much of the outage issues remain in the higher elevation areas of our Virginia service territory, including Floyd and Patrick Counties and the Bent Mountain area of Roanoke County, and in West Virginia in Raleigh and Mercer counties, such as at Flat Top Mountain.”