Last Updated on November 20, 2019 6:10 pm
Mountain Electric Cooperative has scheduled an Emergency Power Outage at 12 AM – 5 AM, on early Friday morning, October 11, 2019, according to a post on their Facebook page.
The outage is necessary to make emergency repairs to equipment at the MEC/ TVA Cranberry Substation.
Members that were without power during the April 2019 outage should expect to lose power during this outage as well.
The outage will impact 14,500 customers over much of Avery County including the following communities:
Newland
Cranberry
Minneapolis
Banner Elk
Sugar Mountain
Grandfather
Montezuma
Linville
Pineola
Crossnore
Jonas Ridge
Old Beech Mountain
Heaton
Matney
Blevins Creek
Linville Falls
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