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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Winter continued to punish the county last week as ice covered tree branches came crashing down on power lines early Friday morning, leaving many county residents without electrical power.
It was late Monday before the last houses were hooked up, although most people had power back Saturday.
The woods early Friday morning sounded like the location of a fire fight. The falling trees and branches blocked roads and driveways making the job of restoring power more difficult. Many of the back roads were also ice covered.
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative spokesman Matt Faulconer said that at the height of the difficulty at 10 a.m. Friday morning, 4,200 of REC’s customers in the Culpeper district were without electricity.
The company could not separate out Rappahannock customers, Mr. Faulconer said, but the Laurel Mills and Rock Mills areas in the county were particularly hard hit.
Mr. Faulconer said REC never lost power coming into the Rixeyville substation, but many distribution lines were down. “Some lines had two or three trees on them,” he said. “Restoring power was a slow process.”
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