99 percent of Magoffin, Lawrence counties left in the dark
It is a cold and dark morning for nearly 150,000 Kentuckians who are waiting for power to be restored to their homes, after freezing rain blanketed much of central and Eastern Kentucky with a thick sheet of ice.
One-third of Kentucky Power’s customers and 60 percent of Big Sandy RECC’s are currently without power.
Especially hard-hit is Magoffin County, where 99 percent of Kentucky Power customers currently do not have power. Only 17 Kentucky Power customers in the entire county currently have electricity. Statistics were not available for Licking Valley RECC.
Likewise, Lawrence County is also experiencing a blackout covering 99 percent of the county. Of the 8,300 homes and businesses in Lawrence County receiving service from either Kentucky Power or Big Sandy, only 110 currently have power.
Other areas heavily affected by the storm include Johnson and Magoffin counties, where outages affect two out of every three customers.
As of 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, current outages include:
Kentucky Power
- Breathitt County, 1,393 of 5,119
- Floyd County, 2,279 of 14,748
- Johnson County, 4,399 of 7,060
- Knott County, 2,871 of 7,744
- Lawrence County, 7,671 of 7,678
- Leslie County, 3,028 of 5,249
- Letcher County, 281 of 11,146
- Magoffin County, 3,014 of 3,030
- Martin County, 1,263 of 4,661
- Perry County, 2,466 of 14,553
- Pike County, 224 of 32,261
Big Sandy RECC
- Breathitt County, 11 of 13
- Floyd County, 4,100 of 6,436
- Johnson County, 4,200 of 6,069
- Knott County, 176 of 369
- Lawrence County, 539 of 642
- Martin County, 812 of 936
Appalachian Power
- Buchanan County, Va., 9 of 12,489
- Dickenson County, Va., 38 of 8,618
- Wise County, Va., 0 of 3,232
- Logan County, W.Va., 184 of 17,666
- Mingo County, W.Va., 307 of 13,655
More info
You can find updated outage information on the following websites:
- Kentucky Power — http://outagemap.kentuckypower.com.s3.amazonaws.com/external/default.html
- Big Sandy RECC — http://outagemap.bigsandyrecc.com/
- Appalachian Power — http://outagemap.appalachianpower.com.s3.amazonaws.com/external/default.html
