Dec. 9, 2009
UPDATE: Wind Storm Disrupting Power
Nearly 8,000 Cabell County Customers Impacted; Twelve Percent of APP’s WV Customers Affected
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Cabell County has not been blown to Oz, but strong gusty winds have left about 55,000 Appalachian Power customers without electricity.
Outages in Cabell County have jumped from 4,400 at 1:30 p.m. Dec 9 to 7,903 as of 4 p.m.
Earlier, portions of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Huntington’s East End had to be closed due to power lines blocking streets. The affected area ranged from 28th to 31st Streets.
Other counties near Huntington with power outages: Wayne (6,491); Kanawha (5,242); Lincoln (5,726); and Putnam (2,029).
The number of affected customers has risen from an early morning total of 6,000 in APC’s three state service area to 100,000.
Some retailers chose to shut down after I-64 was shut down in both directions. As of 10 p.m. , the Madison Avenue Speedway in the city’s West End is closed due to no power. The roof of a vacant building in the 1200 block of Sixth avenue collapsed; the back wall of Allied Transfer Warehouse in Kenova near Virginia Point fell too.
“Employees are currently assessing damages and company and contract workers are repairing outages that affect large numbers of customers,” the APC website stated. “Line workers from outside the area are traveling to affected areas.” They should arrive Thursday morning, Dec. 10.
The next update will be at 10 a.m. Dec. 10.
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UPDATE: Wind Storm Disrupting Power
Nearly 8,000 Cabell County Customers Impacted; Twelve Percent of APP’s WV Customers Affected
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Cabell County has not been blown to Oz, but strong gusty winds have left about 55,000 Appalachian Power customers without electricity.
Outages in Cabell County have jumped from 4,400 at 1:30 p.m. Dec 9 to 7,903 as of 4 p.m.
Earlier, portions of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Huntington’s East End had to be closed due to power lines blocking streets. The affected area ranged from 28th to 31st Streets.
Other counties near Huntington with power outages: Wayne (6,491); Kanawha (5,242); Lincoln (5,726); and Putnam (2,029).
The number of affected customers has risen from an early morning total of 6,000 in APC’s three state service area to 100,000.
Some retailers chose to shut down after I-64 was shut down in both directions. As of 10 p.m. , the Madison Avenue Speedway in the city’s West End is closed due to no power. The roof of a vacant building in the 1200 block of Sixth avenue collapsed; the back wall of Allied Transfer Warehouse in Kenova near Virginia Point fell too.
“Employees are currently assessing damages and company and contract workers are repairing outages that affect large numbers of customers,” the APC website stated. “Line workers from outside the area are traveling to affected areas.” They should arrive Thursday morning, Dec. 10.
The next update will be at 10 a.m. Dec. 10.
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