Please take time today and tomorrow to make some preparations should you lose power.We ask for your support and patience in the event an extended outage does occur. Our decision makers have decades of experience and will make the best decisions possible to safely restore all power, should outages occur. Plans have already been finalized to bring some crews in and depending upon what happens more crews are available. If an extended outage occurs, we also bring in crews and equipment from our sister EMCs in Georgia, and sometimes from other parts of the southeast. In addition, we have contract crews (and equipment) that we bring in to assist in the restoration process. There are also dozens of Amicalola EMC employees working behind the scenes. Second, this allows the greatest number of members to be restored first. First, power must be restored at the source before it can flow further down the line, finally getting to the end user. Why? We start with the substations and work outward down the three phase main distribution lines. Power is restored from the substation to the end user, typically in that order.We are not densely populated like some urban areas and when power outages are widespread across our system, the restoration times may be longer. Amicalola EMC has an average of about 9 meters per mile of line. Our service area covers 1100 square miles of territory across portions of ten counties.Safety is the priority so that everyone can return home to their families. All power will be restored as soon as is safely possible.That information must be called in to one of the numbers above to be accurately reported. Important: While we update the website and facebook page as information becomes available, those pages are not monitored or intended to collect information regarding downed power lines or power outages. In the event you lose power, please report it to one of the following numbers: 70 OR 70 OR 70.As we get prepared, please remember this important information. The weather forecast continues to include the possibility of snow, ice and freezing rain this weekend.
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