That total is down from a peak of more than 98,000 outages reported on Monday afternoon.

Northern Neck Electric Cooperative restored power to their members over the weekend. Did all the workers get to finally go home to their families?  Some chose to continue helping over cooperatives in Virginia

Casey Hollins with REC talks about their determination, but the difficulty encountered in restoring power to all their members. Finding more broken poles, along with thawing conditions….

Arrows up in every category

“Please know, even if your power is still off, crews are hard at work downline fixing components that contribute to your individual outage.”

REC says many of the remaining outages are requiring at least several hours’ worth of repairs.

This was posted early Saturday afternoon on the Northern Neck outages map

REC and Dominion have the National Guard helping restore your power

Casey Hollins with Rappahannock Electric Cooperative says their crews, mutual aid and contract support workers are out in full force. 

Kyle Allwine with Northern Neck Electric Cooperative says it’s the final push to get electricity to the final homes. 

21,000 without power on Friday night

Kyle Allwine with Northern Neck Electric Cooperative and Casey Hollins with Rappahannock Electric Cooperative says this is neighbor-helping-neighbor.

Casey Hollins says as of Friday morning there were 26,000 outages. 200 broken poles are involved. It’s tedious work.

Kyle Allwine talks about the dedication of people who work for cooperatives and how Northern Neck is always preparing for big storms and the aftermath.

REC has restored power to nearly 70% percent of those affected by the storm

The National Weather Service says temperatures today will barely get to freezing

Casey Hollins with Rappahannock Electric Cooperative and Kyle Allwine with Northern Neck Electric Cooperative have two stories that illustrate devastation and sacrifice

Though the co-op knows there are reported outages, the exact cause is not yet known.

The Weather Channel’s Richard Lewelling looks at the Thursday night storm and winter over the next six weeks.

Pole by pole, Northern Neck Electric Cooperative is working to restore power from the storm. An update with Kyle Allwine.