West Penn Still Working To Restore Power

November 16, 2020 4:16 am

West Penn Power Company tells WJPA News that crews are continuing to work to restore power to customers who lost electricity when a severe wind storm moved through the Washington County area on Sunday, but they can’t guarantee everyone will be back on line by Monday night.  Spokesman Todd Myers says that at one point, there were more than eleven-thousand people without power after the storm hit, but they have reduced that number to about eight-hundred.  Myers says the outages were so widespread that it makes it difficult for crews to get to them and make repairs so they’ve tried to get the bigger outages first and will then concentrate on the smaller, individual problems.  Myers says Sunday’s storm was a very damaging event for them, but they hope to have everyone’s service restored by Tuesday evening.  Claysville Elementary was among the locations to lose power.  The McGuffey School District announced that elementary students only would be remote learning on Monday.  All other buildings in the district maintained their regular hybrid schedule.