Outage Update from Blue Ridge Electric

Crews with Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative have returned service to over 2,300 customers this morning. After the fifth consecutive afternoon of thunderstorms rolling through their service territory, the cooperative had 2,348 members without power. Once again, repair crews were immediately dispatched to the trouble spots and as of 6:30am this morning, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative had 39 members without power. All of these members are located in Pickens County, and all the outages involve broken poles. Crews continue to work on these trouble spots.