Trucks rolled out early Sunday morning with 16 Dixie Electric line workers headed to Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association to restore power after Hurricane Delta struck their service area. Southwest Electric, located in Lorman, reported more than 22,500 members without power at height of the outages. That’s 88 percent of the meters is serves.
At the end of the first day of restoration, 19,415 members remained without power. The damage is described as extensive, with large trees on power lines and broken poles. Southwest Electric requested assistance, and Dixie Electric responded by sending 16 linemen, bucket trucks, a track machine and other support vehicles.
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