Alabama Power Has Restored All Tropical Storm Gordon Outages In The State

Alabama News Center | September 6, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Alabama Power has restored electricity to all customers who lost power due to Tropical Storm Gordon.

The company said as of 11 a.m. Thursday, no customers who lost power due to the storm were still without power.

Throughout the course of the storm, nearly 75,000 customers were affected, though there were never more than 31,000 customers without power at any given time due to the weather system.Close to 1,000 Mobile-area linemen, evaluators, contractors and other crew members were involved in the restoration. Additional support from the central part of the state was mobilized Wednesday, with crews traveling to the Mobile area to assist in restoration efforts. Alabama Power established a staging area at the Mobile Greyhound Park in Theodore, serving food to workers and refueling and resupplying trucks as needed.

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