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How Winds Impact the Grid
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Powerful winds can topple trees onto poles and power lines, leading to the potential for power outages.

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REC Restores Service to 92% of Members Without Power

Tuesday | March 6, 2018
REC and an additional 200 mutual aid workers from Virginia and out-of-state electric co-ops have restored more than 92 percent of the outages caused b...
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REC Continues to Discover Extensive Damage to Infrastructure

Monday | March 5, 2018
REC continues to discover more broken poles and extensive damage as crews make their way into previously inaccessible areas, especially west of State ...
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REC Aggressively Working to Restore Power

Sunday | March 4, 2018
REC and mutual aid crews again worked through the night to restore service to about 5,000 members who lost power during the powerful wind storm.
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