With cold temperatures forecast for Sunday night and roughly 37,000 customers in the county without power, the county opened a shelter at a sports complex in Carthage, N.C.
Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted.“We will have folks out there tonight around the clock,” he said.
“We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment, and so we do want citizens of the town to be prepared that this will be a multi-day restoration for most customers, extending potentially as long as Thursday,” Brooks said at the news conference.
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