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substation wasn’t restored until mid-day Thursday.
After transmission stations were put back in order, over 100 outside contractors from Luray and Winchester assisted regular Potomac Edison crews in repairing the power distribution system, Poffenburger said. The last Pepco customers in Rappahannock' had their electiricity back on by. late Sunday night.
The delay in restoring power was due to the wide extent of storm damage, according to Poffenburger. “It covered' the whole area and' happened all at one time. We experienced every type of damage possible—broken poles, broken conductors, burned up conductors, individual service broken down by trees falling over.”
“Repairs were impeded by blocked roads,' the softness of the ground,” Poffenburger continued. “We got our trucks in and limbs were still cracking and falling in' the woods.”
Poffenburger said it was not yet possible to put a dollar figure on'the damage suffered by Potomac Edison. “It was one of'the costliest storms in the history of'the company,” he said.
Francis Updike from Northern Piedmont Electric Cooperative estimated his company’s damages from' the
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92.6%