In sports, zero typically means you lost the game. But using the baseball analogy if you’re the pitcher and you give up zero hits, that’s a good thing.
Lets call it a WIN for Greeneville Energy Authority over the weekend. By late overnight Sunday, the GEA Outage App reported ZERO customers remained without power. Before sunrise on Saturday morning over 9,000 customers were without electricity after severe thunderstorms and heavy rain rolled through the area overnight, downing power lines, causing plenty of structural damage, breaking trees and limbs and spreading debris across the area.
The majority of outages all day and into the night Saturday were in the Courthouse District where two main line poles had to be replaced in the Church Street Barton Ridge area before power could be restored to over 1400 customers in that vicinity.
The outages over the weekend spread from downtown to Lost Mountain. As a matter of fact parts of those areas were the last to be fully restored.
Repairs and cleanup will continue around the area today including the former Takoma Hospital building, where a portion of the roof was ripped away by the storms.
Road crews and area volunteer fire departments were also busy assessing damage and assisting in clearing affected roadways.
