As we near the last phases of restoring power, we continue to ask for your patience and understanding. This is the route to get outage information to the appropriate place. If you have information to report, please call one of our outage numbers: 70 OR 70 OR 70. Dry pond (Cherokee County) extensive damage in this area Ghorley Road, Bethany Trace, Lower Bethany We continue to ask for your patience as we continue this massive restoration effort. NOTE: This list is not all inclusive, there will be crews working in additional areas as the day goes on. The following is a list of areas where crews are working. As previously mentioned, we have 35 outside crews working on our system, in addition to all Amicalola EMC employees. We sincerely hope everyone can get back to their normal routines very soon and we are thankful that there were no major injuries to any line worker or any of our members as far as we know.Īs of 7:00 am this morning, our outage count was 1713 members. All Amicalola EMC employees are local and live in the communities we serve, so the same folks you might see at church or in the grocery store are the ones out working on the lines, in our Dispatch control center, in our warehouse, truck shop, and in our offices. We are blessed to live in a community like this. Area hotels have housed them and other businesses have helped us obtain needed supplies.

Restaurants in Jasper and Ellijay have stepped up to prepare meals to feed this army of line workers we’ve had here working. You guys have been great offering words of encouragement, giving support both on facebook and in the field when you’ve encountered our crews, offering food and drinks, and just overall being supportive and understanding of how bad the storm was and how hard all the crews have worked to get the lights back on. We’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to our members, from the employees, staff and management of Amicalola EMC. We know being without electricity is inconvenient and difficult – everyone, including us, depends on it for almost every aspect of our home and work life. The storm was brutal and left a wide path of destruction as it went through. Were More Than Electricity, Were Service. Report Streetlight Problem Experiencing a problem with a streetlight near your home or business. on Twitter that the station belongs to Sawnee Electric Membership Cooperative (EMC) and is located on Riverside Road. We anticipate all power will be restored by the end of the day if not sooner. Report Power Outage Use the convenient online form to report a power outage. A Gwinnett Fire and Emergency Services spokesperson announced around 5 p.m.

Our broken pole count is approximately 120 poles. There are just over 100 members still out from the storm.

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