"There are numerous broken poles and toppled trees on our lines. "What complicates this process is the large scale damage that we have experienced since Tuesday evening," he said. From there, we must restore power to the main lines and then restore service to the branch lines. "I ask that you understand that power restoration is a sequential process. "We recognize that some have been without service since Tuesday evening," Nichols wrote. In it he described the challenge the company was facing. Thursday that was shared on the company's website and social media. Thursday, Colquitt EMC's website listed 3,374 customers without power: 1,263 served by its Moultrie office, 2,031 by Tifton, 69 by Valdosta, and 11 others.Ĭolquitt EMC's President and CEO Danny Nichols issued a statement at 8:45 a.m. A colleague at Colquitt EMC has set up a GoFundMe page to support him and his family.īy about 4:30 p.m. While one lineman was working on Wednesday night, his own home was struck by lightning, according to a post on the Colquitt EMC Facebook page the residence was a total loss. The repair efforts were not without their dangers. "Because of the extensive damage and outages, in addition to the 10 in-house crews, eight contract crews and seven mutual aid crews joined efforts to restore power to all 72,000 meters," Colquitt EMC said. "Wednesday morning, mutual aid was received from Middle Georgia EMC, Mitchell EMC, and Irwin EMC crews, along with S&S Construction," the company said.Īt its peak on Wednesday evening, about 21,800 of Colquitt EMC's 72,000 meters were without power, the company said.
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