Mississippi Power crew released by Gulf Power to provide Hermine recovery in Georgia
UPDATE: 9/02/16: Gulf’s service territory escaped any impacts and experienced no outages. However with Georgia Power currently at 55,000 without electricity due to the storm, Mississippi Power crews will travel to Georgia to assist with those restoration efforts.
GULFPORT, Miss. – Mississippi Power is sending line crews to Florida to assist Gulf Power with restoration efforts from Hurricane Hermine.
More than 80 linemen, engineers and support personnel from across the company’s service territory are prepared to work in the Florida Panhandle until electric service is restored.
“We, along with our sister companies and many other southeastern electric utilities, have monitored this system for more than a week to understand how it will impact us. Since forecasts indicate our service territory should miss the brunt of the storm, we have the opportunity to send crews to Florida to assist in their restoration,” said Storm Director Randall Pinkston.
“Mutual assistance is an industry partnership whereby utilities that are impacted by significant weather events receive restoration assistance from utilities that are not impacted,” Pinkston added. “For decades, the partnership has enabled us to help other utilities minimize the inconvenience of storm-related outages while ensuring we’re able to maintain the same level of service our customers have come to expect here at home when we are impacted.”
During the peak of storm season and throughout the year, Mississippi Power is monitoring weather forecasts and is prepared for any potential storm systems that could affect our service territory.
As always, information on storm procedures and outages can be found at our storm and outage center page, or simply download the Outage Map using a smart phone or tablet.
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