Local city governments and emergency management services are working diligently to prepare for the anticipated frigid conditions that will affect the Tri-State later this week.
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Crews from Illinois are staged at Pike Central High School. An extra 300 line workers, for a total of about 1,600, were brought to the area to help with power restoration from the second ice storm to move through Kentucky Powerâs territory.
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The latest wave of winter storms has left in its wake a devastating number of power outages in our area.Â
According to Kentucky Power, there are 58,000 AEP customers without power â 4,000 of those customers are from the original storm on Feb. 11.
A second storm hit Monday, bringing a mixture of ice, sleet and snow blanketing the entire Kentucky Power service territory, according to an AEP press release.