ROANOKE, Va. ( WFXR ) – Appalachian Power crews are working to address outages across the area to 10,000 customers on Thursday, April 3, due to thunderstorms that hit in the early morning hours.
The company sent out their Storm Operation’s Team to the Huntington and Wheeling Districts to execute restoration efforts along with external workers to assist impacted areas.
According to AEP, as of 11:15 a.m., around 2,500 customers in Virginia and 7,000 in West Virginia are without electric service. Outage numbers may increase as the storm system may bring winds up to 65 mph across AEP’s service area…