MLGW Helps Mayfield

This morning, a convoy of 12 MLGW trucks left the North Service Center and began the three-hour drive to Mayfield, KY, a city rendered powerless by this week’s snow and ice storms.

As part of a mutual aid agreement, 21 MLGW employees—or three six-man crews, two supervisors and a mechanic—will work closely with Mayfield Electric & Water Systems and other utilities to clear downed power lines and restore power to Mayfield’s more than 10,000 residents. The crews will be in Mayfield for an unspecified amount of time. (In recent years mutual aid agreements have assisted MLGW in restoring power after windstorms and tornadoes. The utility asking for the assistance is responsible for all costs associated with recovery efforts, including salaries and lodging out of town assistance.)


For those of you interested in learning about the restoration efforts in Kentucky, nineteen year-old blogger, Steven Devine, is providing weather reports, outage updates, and general weather info on his blog West Kentucky Weather.

If you haven’t seen some of the devastation that last week’s ice storm has had across the U.S. including Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri, here are a few links to some good articles:

Crews make some progress on ice storm outages

Ky. hit with record number of power outages

Residents face long, icy wait for power to return

Thousands still in dark; water running short

There are still more than 1.3 million people without power right now.

Photos courtesy of the Associated Press