After more than three and a half months, a family on 19W, northwest of Burnsville, can turn their generator off. French Broad Electric Membership Corporation (FBEMC) energized the Merz family home on Sunday, Jan. 26. “The poles used to be along the edge of the river and until they had the road far enough along to get new poles in, we couldn’t get any power, there was no way to get it to us,” Diane Merz said. “Every pole, I think on the entire road was taken down.” Merz moved with her husband to a picturesque home beside the…..