Big Sandy RECC
As of Wednesday afternoon, Kentucky electric cooperative crews, contractors and mutual aid line technicians had restored power to 95 percent of the consumer-members who lost service during the historic back-to-back-to back winter storms that walloped Kentucky earlier this month.
About 5,200 co-op consumer-members were still without power Wednesday, down from the 100,000 without power at the peak of the natural disaster.
From the beginning of the eight-day weather event, co-ops in Northeastern Kentucky were hardest hit, with Grayson RECC most abused by the succession of crippling ice storms. The cooperative, which serves about 15,000 members in six counties, reports a staggering 200 broken poles in its service territory. Each pole replacement is a separate construction project.