Derecho Storm Update

The storm on June 29, 2012 was part of a massive straight line wind storm that traveled close to 700 miles in 10 hours, affecting 10 states and leaving around 4.3 million people without power. Officials are saying this storm was similar to a hurricane without warning, producing winds greater than 75mph.

Our crews are working between Dublin and Pulaski, VA and Princeton and Bluefield, WV. Storm work is predicted to last until this weekend. We are working with Appalachian Power, a unit of American Electric Power Co.  Additional storms coming thru Sunday after the Derecho storm caused more outages to the Wytheville and Woodlawn Virginia areas.

As of last night, 261,732 customers out of 573,000 have been restored in APCOs  service territory.
192,387 remain out in West Virginia, and 118,881 in Virginia.