Linemen and linewomen from Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative are in northern Missouri’s Macon County this morning, working to restore power to more about 1,200 residents. About 2,700 Macon Electric Cooperative members in nine counties are without power due to the winter storm and strong winds. Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives vice president Mike Sutherland joined us live on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri”, telling listeners that the wet, heavy snow and strong winds caused the outages. One listener from just south of Macon says he’s been without power for 20 hours. Mr. Sutherland tells listeners that he’s optimistic power will be restored as quickly as possible. Crews are working in very difficult conditions: heavy snow, in some ice and in subfreezing temperatures:
Mid-Missouri utility crews helping to restore power in storm-damaged northern Missouri
Utility crews from Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative are in northern Missouri’s Macon County this morning, trying to restore power to more than 1,000 residents.
About 2,800 Macon Electric Cooperative members in nine counties are without power due to the winter storm and strong winds. About 1,100 of them are in Macon County, which is north of Moberly.
Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives vice president Mike Sutherland tells 939 the Eagle that multiple crews from mid-Missouri’s electric co-ops are in hard-hit northeast Missouri, where more than 16,000 co-op members lost power. They’re working in snow and subfreezing temperatures. About 300 customers in mid-Missouri’s Randolph and Monroe counties remain without power this morning.
Sutherland tells 939 the Eagle that power outages have occurred in an area stretching from Randolph County all the way to the Iowa border and east to the Mississippi river.
Mid-Missouri linemen restoring power in snow, muddy conditions in southern Missouri
Eight linemen from Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative are making significant progress, as they continue to restore power this (Friday) morning in storm-damaged southeast Missouri.
Towns like Fredericktown, which is south of Farmington, received about ten inches of snow on Wednesday. That heavy, wet snow caused trees to fall into lines, knocking power out. At one time, about 14,000 customers of Fredericktown-based Black River Electric Cooperative were without power. That number is now down to 2,600 as of 8:45 this morning, thanks to the work of Boone Electric and other cooperatives doing mutual aid.
Utility crews from Linn and Tipton-based rural electric cooperatives are also assisting in power restoration in southern Missouri. They, like Boone Electric crews, have been working in snow and mud. Crews from Tipton-based Co-Mo Electric are working in the West Plains area, where about 4,700 customers of Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative are still without power. That’s down from 11,000 on Wednesday.
The linemen have been working day and night to restore power.
Boone Electric asking customers to conserve energy
Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative is warning its members in six mid-Missouri counties that energy supplies could be tight today (Thursday) and tomorrow, and they’re asking members to conserve energy both days. Boone Electric is citing information from Associated Electric Cooperative, their power supplier. The cooperative notes we’ve seen an unseasonably hot weather pattern and that there …
Boone Electric asking customers to conserve energy
Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative is warning its members in six mid-Missouri counties that energy supplies could be tight today (Thursday) and tomorrow, and they’re asking members to conserve energy both days. Boone Electric is citing information from Associated Electric Cooperative, their power supplier. The cooperative notes we’ve seen an unseasonably hot weather pattern and that there …