MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As storms rolled through Wednesday night, power flickered out for thousands in the Memphis area through Thursday morning.
Memphis Light, Gas, and Water says that from Wednesday to Thursday morning, a total of 21,020 of their customers were without power for more than 5 minutes.
The company says that around 2:45 a.m., a maximum of 8,514 customers were affected at one time. However, they have worked to restore power to over 15,000 customers, with 6,132 still suffering from the outage.
Most outages are due to overhead fusses. They say more storms could slow down the speed of restoration times, though.
The company says they have over 200 crews ready to complete damage assessments, make repairs, and restore power as safely and quickly as possible.
Tips for if your power goes out:
Check to see if the lights are out in neighboring homes — if so, it’s likely a larger outage.
Access the MLGW outage map via mlgw.com or the MLGW app.
Report the outage on the MLGW app or call 544-6500.
For more tools, visit here.
Tips for if a powerline is knocked down:
Stay away and call MLGW at 528-4465.
Assume the line is “energized” and stay away and warn others to do the same.
Do not remove fallen tree limbs or other debris from power lines. (Tree limbs and other objects can conduct electricity that can shock anyone coming in contact with them.)
Check the latest forecasts from WREG Weather
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