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UPDATE: Houses without power down to about 170 in Clarksville, 5 days after wind storm

UPDATE: Houses without power down to about 170 in Clarksville, 5 days after wind storm

CDE crews work to restore power on March 6, 2023. (CDE Lightband, contributed) Photo: Clarksville Now/CDE Lightband, contributed


Update, 5:15 p.m.: CDE Lightband is down to about 170 without power.

Update, 1 p.m.: CDE Lightband now has only about 275 without power.

Previously:

CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Utility crews working through the night restored power to about 2,000 homes in Clarksville overnight Monday.

In Clarksville, CDE Lightband now has only about 560 without power as of 7:40 a.m. Most of those are in the Hilldale area off of Madison Street.

In Montgomery County, CEMC has power restored to every member except one.

“For the outages that remain, the majority of them are in stages 4 and 5 of the restoration process,” CDE said, and that means repairing secondary distribution lines and restoring individual service. “As we get into the more isolated outages, we see more complex issues, some even requiring the use of heavy machinery,” CDE said.

MORE: Storm cleanup by city on case-by-case basis this week across Clarksville

39,000 total lost power

A 79 mph wind gust was recorded at Outlaw Field at 12:56 p.m. Friday, the strongest recorded in Tennessee.

Those gusts took down trees, utility poles and power lines. At the height of the outage Friday afternoon, 31,000 of CDE’s 79,500 customers lost power.

Throughout the multi-county CEMC system, 48,000 members lost power, with over 8,000 of those in Montgomery County.

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