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Mr. Updike said that “about 100“ of Rappahannock Electric’s 600 county customers were affected by the outages. They occurred in Amissville, Castleton and Woodville, and as of Tuesday afternoon crews were still working to repair service to some customers.
“We think we’ve got a handle on it,” he said, “and we’ll stay with those who still don’t have power.” Rappahannock Electric had 80 men working around the clock to repair storm-related outages. “What makes it so difficult,” he explained, “is that each section of line which tripped a circuit protector has to be
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