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Nine days after Helene knocked out power to more than 310,000 utility customers in Virginia, electricity has been restored to nearly all of them.
Appalachian Power, the main utility in Southwest Virginia, announced Sunday it had completed power restoration. The website Poweroutage.us showed only scattered outages from other utilities.
Meanwhile, both bridges into Taylors Valley, a portion of Washington County that had been cut off during the storm, have been reopened, according to state Sen. Todd Pillion, R-Washington County. One is a temporary bridge that has been erected, the other is the original bridge that the Virginia Department of Transportation has repaired, he said.
“Thank you to VDOT who worked tirelessly on this project,” Governor Glenn Youngkin said in a statement. “There are points of light each day as we recover.”
Anyone interested in donating to the Taylors Valley Community Relief Fund may do so by mailing a check to PO Box 1044, Glade Spring, VA 24340, according to a post on Pillion’s Facebook page.