Power Crews in Southeast Strive to Restore Service
More than a quarter of a million Tennesseans and thousands elsewhere in the Southeast still had no electricity Sunday as crews labored to replace power lines brought down by thick layers of freezing rain.
Cecil Whaley of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency estimated that 128,000 households, or more than 250,000 people, were still waiting for workers to clear broken tree limbs and reconnect power lines. Power had been restored to about 535,000 customers.
Lynchburg, Va., remained under an overnight curfew Sunday for the third straight night. The city had no street lights, and businesses had no alarm systems.
Virginia utilities reported an estimated 156,000 customers still without lights Sunday, and about 6,000 customers awaited reconnection in West Virginia.
Elsewhere, parts of the Northeast, still digging out from last week’s heavy snowfall, got a thin coating of ice Sunday. But for the first time in weeks, the region had no heavy snow forecast for the foreseeable future.
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