Roan Mountain area hit by power outages for second day
Published 10:58 am Wednesday, January 10, 2024
- Buzz Trexler/Star Correspondent Power lines along Ripshin Mountain Road that were impacted by high winds overnight Monday left the area without power for most of the day Tuesday. Power returned to the area late Tuesday night, but residents awakened to another outage Wednesday morning. Mountain Electric Cooperative said on Facebook Wednesday morning that workers were attempting to restore power.
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For a second morning, Mountain Electric Cooperative customers in the Roan Mountain area awakened to weather-related power outages,
About 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, the cooperative posted on its Facebook page, “MEC is aware of the outages in the Tiger Creek and Walnut Mountain communities. Please avoid the area, if possible, as there are downed power lines. Thank you for your patience.”
Lines were also reported to have been downed and lying across Ripshin Mountain Road, about 0.9 mile from US 19E.
Power was at least partially restored in the Ripshin community by 2 p.m.
The Tiger Creek/Ripshin Mountain Road area was without power from early Tuesday morning until around 11 p.m. The cooperative posted that the outages in Roan Mountain and Newland, NC, were due to broken poles that were in areas “that are not easily accessible, which does slow down restoration efforts.”
