More than a week after an ice and snow storm hit Butler County and caused thousands of people to lose power, all outages have been restored.
On Thanksgiving Day, Central Electric Cooperative was still dealing with a handful of outages.
West Penn Power had all of their outages restored on Wednesday.
It was last Thursday evening when the storm brought down hundreds of trees and power lines, and closed roads. Initially, 46,000 power customers were in the dark. Many residents had to endure a power outage for several days.
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Central Electric Cooperative CEO Matt Boshaw sent a letter to members on Thanksgiving:
- Road closures to and from our office and outage locations had us implement our alternate routing while fire, police, township, county and agencies worked diligently to reopen roads.
- Our telephone communications were down and intermittent throughout as our four different carriers, 2 land line and 2 cellular, experienced service interruptions leading us to implement our emergency backup utilizing an out of state provider.
- Our power supplier experienced the same level of damage that we were sustaining effecting delivery to 9 of our substations and requiring of us a greater level of deliberate inspection of our lines before restoration further delaying restoration efforts. This led to us engaging our prior established mutual aid agreements with cooperatives across the state as well as the 4 tree trimming contractors that we utilize throughout the year.
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