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Member Alert - Thursday, December 13, 2007 Farmers’ Electric crews were able to restore power to the last member without electrical service as a result of Monday’s ice storm, just before 7:30 p.n. Wednesday. Overall, approximately 1,500 FEC members were without power for periods of time, ranging from several hours to several days, after the devastating storm dropped power lines and trees throughout Missouri. Most of the outages occurred on the west and northwest areas of FEC’s distribution system, focusing primarily in Ray and Daviess counties. The ice storm is still causing a few minor spot outages as a circuit was kicked off at the Kidder substation this morning, plus two individual outages were reported overnight. If you have a power outage, please call our Call Center at 1-800-279-0496. Member Alert - Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Approximately 1,500 residences served by Farmers’ Electric Cooperative were without power at various times during the ice storm that rolled through the cooperative’s service territory on Tuesday. By dark, all but 150 homes had been restored with power; and barring unforeseen circumstances, those remaining homes should have power before the end of the day. Most of the FEC crews worked an 18-hour day, and they will be returning to their trucks by 6 a.m. today. FEC crews will be joined by private contractors in finishing the initial repair work. Most of the outages occurred along the western edge of the FEC service territory. The counties hit hardest were Daviess and Ray. As of 5 a.m. today, there were two outages remaining on the Avalon substation. A second outage on the Chillicothe substation involved about 20 members two miles north of Blacksmith Corner near Indian Creek Lake. About 3 a.m., a series of outages were recorded at the Stoneybrook subdivision near Cameron. The outages include an area back toward the new Cameron Hospital on I-35. The remaining FEC members without power are in Daviess County and the western side of Ray County. If you are a member of Farmers' Electric Cooperative and you do not have power, please telephone our Call Center at 1-800-279-0496. This will help to insure that we haven't missed anyone as we complete the repairs to our distribution system today. Member Alert - Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Farmers’ Electric crews were first called out just before midnight Monday, December 10, 2007, in response to a tree that had fallen through a power line near Gallatin. Four more outages quickly followed and crews were contacted by the cooperative’s Call Center and dispatched before 12:30 a.m. Crews were able to get all of these power outages taken care of by 4:30 a.m. when a wave of outages were recorded at the Gallatin, Nettleton, and Kidder substations just before 5 o’clock this morning. While there have been scattered outages across the western side of the system, most of the power failures have been concentrated in two areas:
When the number of outages totaled about 300 residences, FEC contacted contractors that had been on stand-by, and they have been assisting FEC crews since this morning. Between midnight and 4 p.m., there were approximately 600 residential outages. Most of the outages have been caused by ice breaking power lines or ice that has dropped trees on top of and broken our power lines. The good news is that FEC crews and contractors have been able to keep up with the outages. The bad news is that as soon as crews repair one line, another goes down. There is the possibility of additional bad news. The temperature is supposed to drop this afternoon (Tuesday), and winds are expected to pick up out of the northwest. Winds and ice are a potent mixture, usually resulting in broken poles and power lines. The weight of the ice is more than the distribution system can normally handle. If you have a power outage, please call the cooperative’s Call Center at 1-800-927-5334. Due to the massive number of outages in the Midwest, there is an approximate wait of about two minutes before you talk to an operator. Click here for information on restoring power during major storm outages. This is a PDF file that will take awhile to download to your computer if you are on a dial-up connection, so please wait. Thank you! |
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