Five days after storms knocked out power for many, a handful of people are still waiting to come back online.
According to Duke Energy’s outage map, about 4,000 people in Vigo County are still without service. Today will be the fifth day without power for those in the area.
Angeline Protogere, a spokesperson for Duke Energy, said that their goal is to have power restored to the final areas by 6 p.m.
“The hardest hit part of our service area was West Central Indiana,” she said. “We still are working on restoring outages, the last of them in Terre Haute, Clinton and Brazil areas.”
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All told, Protogere said that over 300,000 outages were reported over the last five days, with 50,000 of those being Monroe County Residents. That number represents one third of all the customers they service throughout the state.
“What made this storm unique was its widespread nature,” she said. “Virtually every district we serve, every one of the 28 districts, was affected by outages. And then we had multiple waves of storms, so in some cases, we would make repairs to infrastructure and then another storm would come through and we would be repairing the same infrastructure two or three times.”
Duke and other energy providers had to turn to outside workers to complete repairs. In Duke’s case, over 1000 additional workers were brought on from other areas covered by the utility provider like Ohio and Kentucky.
