Five Straight Days of Power Outages in Upstate

For the fifth consecutive afternoon, a line of thunderstorms rolled through Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative’s service territory. As of 5:45pm Wednesday, the cooperative had 2,348 members without power. The by-county breakdown was 65 in Anderson County, 356 in Greenville County, 280 in Oconee County and 1,647 in Pickens County. Repair crews have been dispatched to a majority of the trouble spots. To report an outage to Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, call 1-888-BLUERIDGE.