As of 6:00 pm this afternoon, Tuesday, August 17th, HEMC has approximately 7352 members experiencing power outages across our 8 county service territory due to excessive rainfall, mud slides and high winds. We have additional crews from Rutherford EMC that will arrive early tomorrow morning; however, we do not expect full power restoration prior to sometime this weekend due to mudslides and washed out bridges inhibiting our crews from power restoration. Following are the number of outages per county:
Buncombe – 389
Haywood – 3926
Jackson – 1617
Macon – 98
Transylvania – 1191
Oconee, SC – 13
Rabun, GA – 116
Crews continue working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.
