Noon Power Outage updates from across the area

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – High winds continue to bring down trees in our area, which means more power problems.

EPB was still working to restore power to 800 customers, which is up from the 500 they still had out last night.

EPB’s Vegetation Manager, George Morgan, told us “We’ve had a lot of tree outages …a lot of trees fall through lines.”

“Just this past month we’ve had about 200 uprooted tree outages…and we did in March as well. So, that’s trees when they just uproot..fall out of the ground and fall through the lines.”

The Volunteer Energy Cooperative has seem more problems this morning.

Polk: 379
McMinn: 322
Meigs: 277
Bradley: 165

Polk & Meigs had almost no outages this morning.

The Sequachee Valley Energy Cooperative also has seen their outage map grow this morning.

It climbed from 200 outages early, peaking at over 800 in late morning, and has dropped to 707 at noon.

The primary outages are in Jasper, Dunlap and Pikeville.