A massive effort to restore power after yesterday’s damaging storms has continued throughout the day and is expected to last through Monday night and into Tuesday.
More than 500 Green Mountain Power employees and contractors are working to restore service as quickly as possible – repairing lines, removing trees and answering phones.
Green Mountain Power still has over 2,000 customers without power in towns such as St. Johnsbury, Danville and Marshfield. At one point over 20,000 customers were in the dark.
Spokesperson Dorothy Shnure says there are some instances where two or three poles will need to be replaced just to get power back to a handful of customers.
"There were trees down all over, lines down, poles down, in fact in many areas, the roads were so bad they were inaccessible so our crews could not get to where they needed to go to restore outage," said Shnure.
Washington Electric Cooperative is also working to restore power to over 600 of its customers. The utility expects the bulk of that work to be completed today.
