Teams From Central Kentucky Travel Across State Lines to Restore Power to Hundreds of Thousands
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – “Building a home can take anywhere between eight months to a year,” said Director of Emergency Disaster Services of Lexington, Matt Daley. Daley and his team are building whole cities in 24 hours. “I’m from Eastern Kentucky. Where I grew up, there are still people in that area who do not […]
All-Out-Assault on Remaining Power Outages
WAYNE, W.Va. — Challenges continued to mount Saturday for thousands of workers trying to gain the upper hand on power outages in a six-county region in West Virginia hard hit in separate ice storms during the past two weeks. Appalachian Power Company reported more than 40,000 customers remained without power Saturday afternoon in Cabell, Wayne, […]
Mobile Bunkhouses Deployed for New Crews Riding Herd on WV Power Outages
BARBOURSVILLE — Appalachian Power crews from Virginia joining the struggle to restore electrical service to more than 50,000 West Virginia homes and businesses will have a warm place to rest after an encampment of mobile bunkhouses was established in a Huntington Mall parking lot on Friday. The first 250 occupants of the encampment were expected […]