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Crews Make Progress with Outage Restoration Progresses After Monday’s Windstorm
Crews continue working to restore final outages
Blue Ridge Energy line crews continued power restoration efforts overnight and this morning due to damage to power lines from high winds during Monday’s windstorm.
As of 9 am, the following outages remain: Ashe County: 39; Watauga County: 5; and Alleghany County: 2 members without power.
At the height of the outages, 5,759 Blue Ridge Energy members were impacted by high winds and snow, primarily in the cooperative’s mountain districts of its service area. As of this morning, the impacts were as follows: Watauga district: 31 different locations were damaged, causing outages to 2,688 members; Ashe district: 37 locations were damaged, affecting 1,706 members; Alleghany district: 12 damaged locations led to outages for 991 members; and in Caldwell district: seven damaged locations created outages for 374 members.
Crews continue repairs to power lines and poles today to restore power to the remaining outages as quickly as possible.
For outage status at any time:
- View the cooperative’s online outage map at www.BlueRidgeEnergy.com or on the Blue Ridge Energy mobile app.
Keep outage reporting methods handy:
- Call PowerLine: 1-800-448-2383
- Use the Blue Ridge Energy mobile app
- By text when your mobile number is on your account: Text OUT to 70216
Blue Ridge Energy posts information during major outages on its social media:
www.facebook.com/blueridgeenergy; www.instagram.com/blueridgeenergy and www.x.com/blueridgeemc. However, outage reporting is not available over social media; please report all outages by phone, mobile app or text as listed above to ensure all outages are logged into the cooperative’s outage management system.
Blue Ridge Electric serves some 80,000 members in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, and parts of Wilkes, Avery and Alexander counties. Its propane and fuels subsidiary serves customers in the cooperative’s service area as well as Burke, Catawba, and Grayson County, Va. Learn more at www.BlueRidgeEnergy.com.