More than 70,000 customers in Kentucky and nearly 40,000 in Tennessee experience power outages after storm passes through the area.
More than 70,000 customers in Kentucky and nearly 40,000 in Tennessee are experiencing power outages after a storm passed through the area on Friday.and a heat advisory that prompted a warning from Nashville Mayor John Cooper to take precautions.shows that as of late Friday morning local time 22,963 Nashville Electric Service customers were in the dark. The company provides energy to Middle Tennessee which includes all of Nashville.
That number dropped to just over 8,000 by early afternoon. NES said the outages were due to a storm that"took down trees and power lines in several pockets of our service area." "NES crews are activating a restoration plan that prioritizes the areas with the highest number of outages," the company said in a
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