(WSPA) – Efforts to restore power to more than 1 million people who lost service during Tropical Storm Helene are continuing on Sunday.
Work crews were back out Sunday morning removing trees and repairing damaged power lines and transmission stations.
Efforts to get public infrastructure back to normal have been exhaustive across the Upstate and Western North Carolina.
According to the Gaffney Board of Public Works , crews were able to able to resolve a water outage in Blacksburg after 36 hours of work. The board said there are still isolated outages on Gaffney Ferry Road and Pumping Station Road, which should be resolved sometime Sunday.
Greer Public Works said it was able to meet a goal of restoring backbone feeders on Saturday, which has allowed and so far more roughly 17,000 people have had their power turned back on. Crews will be back out Sunday morning continuing to work on areas without power.
Broad River Electric said on Sunday it managed to restore power to 700 more people overnight, but 17,000 are still waiting to get power back. More than 100 additional workers arrived to the area Saturday night to bolster restoration efforts.