Garbage pickup, which had been interrupted by the storm, is back on schedule, he said. At one point about 800 Moultrie customers were without power. Thursday, City Manager Pete Dillard said. The City of Moultrie had restored electricity to all of its customers as of 2 a.m. That's down from more than 1,600 on Wednesday afternoon. Georgia Power's outage map shows 286 of its customers in Colquitt County still without electricity.
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"Given that today is the first full day of work after Idalia, we expect significant progress to be made today," Nichols wrote. By restoring transmission service to those 5 substations, a significant number of meters have been restored. "Georgia Transmission and Georgia Power crews are working to establish service to those two substations this morning. "Some additional good news: Yesterday 7 of our 29 substations were without transmission service, but as of this morning that number has been reduced to two substations without service (one in Valdosta and one in Nashville)," his letter said. "So, in addition to the 100 personnel we currently have, we will have 180 more personnel working to resolve the outage.
"In addition to our in-house crews, we have additional contract and mutual aid crews arriving this morning," Nichols wrote. That's about half the number affected as of late Wednesday afternoon. Only about 5,100 customers in the Moultrie service area are still without power this morning, the map says. Georgia Department of Transportation: (229) 891-7130. Georgia Power: 1-88 or use the outage app.įor downed trees, water over the road or road washouts: Colquitt EMC: 1-85 or use the outage app. Two options for reporting other non-emergency events include E-911's non-emergency number, (229) 616-7470, or the Colquitt County Sheriff's Office, (229) 616-7430. If you sustain a power outage, please contact your local utility company (see below).
If you observe or sustain personal or property damage, or if you see downed power lines, please call 911 and report it. The company's outage map shows more than half of those are in the Valdosta service area, which appears to have been the hardest hit area in Georgia. Schools will be closed again on Monday for the Labor Day holiday.Ĭolquitt EMC President and CEO Danny Nichols posted a letter on the company's Facebook page Thursday morning that said 45,000 of its customers are without power. The schools and school district offices were closed Wednesday and Thursday due to the storm. Colquitt County Schools confirmed early Thursday afternoon that classes will resume Friday morning.
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