LAKELAND, Tenn. — MLGW crews chiseled away at their to-do lists Wednesday. WREG found a crew repairing power lines on Chambers Chapel Road in Lakeland.
MLGW said it hopes to have power restored to customers by midnight.
“However, due to the extreme damage that the storm created, some customers may not be restored until tomorrow,” MLGW representative Gale Jones Carson said.
Jimmy Ray Collins lives around the corner from where crews were working on Chambers Chapel. He said he was in the dark four hours Tuesday.
He did not know his neighborhood would still be having issues Wednesday until his daughter called him.
“By your neighbor’s house, there’s a power line and wire laying in the road. You’ll have to take the tractor road around,” Collins recalled.
MLGW said crews are scattered across Shelby County, as the storm did not favor any one part of town.
“A lot of the damage that our customers occurred was from wind and tree limbs, the trees falling into our lines,” Carson said.
Carson clarified that restoring power to traffic lights is not up to MLGW. The city’s engineering department handles traffic light outages.
The light was out at Union Avenue and Cooper Street earlier Wednesday, though the city said that outage has been fixed. It is reportedly still working on a traffic light outage at Sycamore View Road and Pleasant View Road.
Originally, the storm knocked out power for about 15,000 customers.
MLGW asked that customers report outages to (901) 544-6500.