Detail from the Greenville SC newspaper....
http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.d ... 1/51215004
Approximately 155,000 Duke Power customers in South Carolina are without power, company spokesman Bryant Kinney said at 1 p.m.
Crews are targeting substations first, which should restore power to the largest number of homes and businesses. Individual homes will come later, Kinney said.
Around 72,500 customers are without power in Greenville, 33,000 in Anderson, 28,700 in Spartanburg, 10,900 in Pickens and 4,100 in Oconee.
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative reported about 55 circuits were out, cutting power to approximately 40,000 customers, said company spokeswoman Denise McCormick. That's about two-thirds of the co-op's customers.
Laurens Electric Cooperative reported that its outages have more than doubled, jumping from 5,300 customers without power to 12,500, said Jim Donahoo, director of marketing. The cooperative has seven crews from outside agencies helping to restore their outages. The hardest hit area is Greenville County, Donahoo said.
Laurens serves 47,000 customers in Greenville, Spartanburg, Laurens, Anderson and Abbeville, Donahoo said.
As the crystal-like ice coating brought down power lines, the utility summoned independent contractors and crews from other companies to help restore power, but McCormick said she didn't know when that would be. The utility serves Pickens and Oconee counties and part of Anderson County.
The power outages have been rolling in nature. For example, Greenville's North Main Street area lost power around 4 a.m. and the Jonesville Road area not for approximately six hours later. Homes in the Pebble Creek area went dark at 8 a.m. and parts of Easley went out around 9:30 a.m.
Severe as today's storm is, its scope pales in comparison to a December 2002 ice storm. Then, 1.3 million of Duke Power's 2.3 million customers in the southern region that includes the Carolinas lost power. Tens of thousands in Greenville and the Upstate went without electricity for four days, and 14,000 were dark after a week.
A December 1996 storm affected 660,000 Duke customers.
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