Last Updated on October 13, 2024 7:03 pm
Power was restored to all of Watauga County on Sunday evening, two weeks and two days after Hurricane Helene.
According to the Blue Ridge Energy outage map, only 8 members in Ashe County were without, while every other county in the member area stood at zero outages at 6:20pm.
At the height of the outages, 63,000 members were without electricity. Line crews from across the state and eastern United States have been and continue to assist Blue Ridge Energy in restoring power.
Crews have worked around the clock since the outages began in the late evening hours of September 26. A significant portion of the cooperative’s electric system across all the counties it serves was damaged or destroyed: substations flooded, hundreds of poles broken or taken down by mudslides or swift water, and miles of mangled power lines wrapped in debris, fallen trees and power poles.
