Mid-day outage report from Blue Ridge Electric

By 11:30 this morning, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative counted 8,542 customers without service in Oconee, Anderson, Pickens, and Greenville counties. Oconee Blue Ridge customers without power numbered 2,860. There were 3,649 outages in Pickens County. The outages include six backbone feeder lines. Three circuits out in Oconee serve parts of the Newry and Westminster areas. Another circuit that serves the Roberts Church Community of Anderson County was off line. Blue Ridge reported fresh crews arrived to help those that have been working. Progress to restore is expected, but damage to the system means that some service will not be returned until sometime Wednesday, according to the 11:30 announcement.