BARBOURSVILLE — Appalachian Power crews from Virginia joining the struggle to restore electrical service to more than 50,000 West Virginia homes and businesses will have a warm place to rest
All-Out-Assault on remaining power outages By
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Matt Daley of EDS (Emergency Disaster Services)
WAYNE, W.Va. Challenges continued to mount Saturday for thousands of workers trying to gain the upper hand on power outages in a six-county region in West Virginia hard hit in separate ice storms during the past two weeks.
Appalachian Power Company reported more than 40,000 customers remained without power Saturday afternoon in Cabell, Wayne, Lincoln, Putnam, Jackson and Mason counties. More than 9,000 customers had service restored Friday.
The power company has more than 3,200 workers on the job. Many of them are staying in portable housing at the Huntington Mall parking lot which has turned into a small city.
HUNTINGTON — Appalachian Power is continuing major storm restoration efforts, using more than 3,200 workers, helicopters and drones to make repairs caused by one of the largest ice events to
When the Huntington Mall opened, management of The Herald-Dispatch directed reporters and editors to refer to it as The Huntington Mall in Barboursville at Ona. The geographic gymnastics were done