Power outage update across the Tennessee Valley

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The gusty winds have backed up emergency services this morning and kept power crews scrambling.

Police warn that trees are bringing down live power lines all over the area this morning, so treat any downed line as dangerous.

Here is the latest on the power situation.

Overnight, EPB still had about 500 customers they were still working on from weekend damage.

But trees continue to come down this morning and the red dots are growning on EPB’s outage map.

Georgia Power is not reporting many outages in the northwest corner of the state.

They have about ten customers out in Dade County and about 50 north of Summerville.

Volunteer Energy Cooperative seems to have the most trouble this morning.

They still have more than 48 hundred customers out of power from the Georgia line to the Kentucky line in their coverage area.

Half of those are around Crossville.

But they still have more than a thousand outages in Bradley County and five hundred in McMinn.

VEC reports scattered outages in Bledsoe, Hamilton, Meigs and Polk counties.

Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative still have more than two hundred customers without power.

It runs the length of the Sequatchee Valley from Haletown to the tip of Blesdoe county.