Tropical Storm Elsa outage restorations complete

At this time, the cooperative has completed its outage restoration efforts resulting from damage associated with Tropical Storm Elsa. All power should be restored to co-op members who experienced an outage as the storm passed through the region. If a co-op member continues to experience a power outage, they should report it by using the cooperative’s SmartHub app or by calling 757-787-9750.

About 2,000 total members experienced a power outage through the duration of the storm with a peak of about 1,600 members without power around 1 a.m. Cooperative personnel began responding to outages as they came in Thursday evening and worked through the night restoring power to co-op members affected.

While restoration efforts concluded at about 6:30 a.m., cooperative personnel are still out working on storm-related issues. Co-op members are urged to stay away from, and report any downed power lines, or trees/limbs on power lines.