Power has been restored to most areas of Jackson County officials of Jackson EMC said Wednesday morning with only 354 customers in the area still without electricity. Most of that is in the South Jackson area, officials said.
In Madison County, some 4,386 JEMC customers remain without power Wednesday morning, down from 8,000 Tuesday afternoon. Madison County was hit hard by Sunday's snow storm and school was again canceled Wednesday.
According to JEMC, 30 work crews are in Madison County Wednesday. Some 70 broken power poles were rreported in the county with 17 remaining to be fixed. Mud has been a major problem in restoring power, officials said, as trucks get bogged down and have to be pulled out of the mire.
Most of the feeder lines have been restored in Madison County, JEMC officials said Wednesday morning and work in both Madison and Jackson is now focused on restoring power to individual homes.
Most of Jackson now has power
Defined tags for this entry: mike
As with the phone companies, would things be any better if we were actually allowed competitive providers in lieu of monopolies?
Contrary to what seems to be popular belief, there is no magic crystal ball that tells them where all the damage is to the lines, where the trees are down or where the poles are broken. Much of this happens off the beaten path, out of obvious sight. Therefore, someone must walk these lines to FIND the areas of damage in order to fix them. There was a very nice, albeit very tired Georgia Power rep doing that very same thing on our property on Sunday night.
So, despite the fact that it was cold, and I was inconvenienced, I am grateful to those gentlemen who were a lot more inconvenienced than I - for working so diligently to get our power on and get us back to normal. Thank you, gentlemen.
Also the damage could have been alot worse had they not spent all last summer out trimming back tree branches from the lines up and down Hwy 335. They did a great job being prepared for bad weather but had no way to even expect as much snow as we had at once. I've lived here 34 years and have never seen this much snow in Jackson County all at once.
When a person has been out in the cold for about 30 hours they get really tired, I am sure. And when they get tired, just like us, they are likely to make mistakes. These mistakes friends aren't to be taken lightly. One wrong move, touching one wrong wire and they die.
Many of you, from the accounts that I have heard, owe these folks apologies. They were only trying to do the best they could, under less than perfect circumstances, and all you could do was to curse them and be mean to them.
As for why Ga. Power has less outages than the EMC, I don't know. However, it could be related to the fact that Ga. Power is more in town where trees aren't a problem. In the rural parts of our county, your precious trees are more important than your power lines. When the right of way crews come out to trim back your trees, let them, it's for your benefit.
To all those workers I say...THANK YOU. It could have been worse.