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Gulf Restores Thousands With Help; All EREC Power Back On
September 5, 2018
Tens of thousands of people in Escambia and Santa Rosa County lost power during Tropical Storm Gordon.
Early Wednesday morning, Gulf Power reported 15,830 customers in Escambia County and 489 in Santa Rosa County without power late Tuesday night. Escambia River Electric Cooperative reported power outages for 1,556 customers in Escambia County and 2,084 in Santa Rosa County. For EREC, the outage represented about one-third of all customers.
By noon, Gulf Power had restored power for over 14,000 customers. Gulf Power reported outages for 2,029 customers in Escambia County and 563 in Santa Rosa. EREC had restored serviced for over 3,600 customers, reporting all customers in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties had power.
“Our crews are working throughout the night to restore power after Gordon. They are working as quickly and safely as possible,” Gulf Power posted on social media about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Pictured: Georgia Power crews roll into Molino Wednesday morning to help Gulf Power restore power in across the area. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Gulf Restores Thousands With Help; All EREC Power Back On”
While out on the streets checking on rental properties, I saw numerous Georgia Power crews in the our area to assist our local linemen. Gulf Power has done a great job restoring power and it is fantastic that they were able to call upon assistance from one of their “sister” utilities.
Gulf Power restored my service within 3 hours. I’m very pleased with their work!
So thankful for these diligent workers. Hats off to the dedicated members of the crews! We were also only without power for about an hour before GP got it back up and running!
Thank the lord for all these crews who were probably in bed and thank them for getting power up so quick if it wasn’t for them we would be without power all night i can’t sleep without a fan on me im only 14 years old but i kow how it is getting up in the middle of the nght just to go out and fix the power
We lost power in our area last night for about 1 hour before Gulf Power had it back on again. Thanks to all the crews who work in such bad weather!
Kudo’s to Gulf Power for their quick response to the outages. In my area, at approximately 11:42pm, there was an outage which caused the loss of power to 511 accounts. Within 2-hours, Gulf Power had service restored. It was still raining with gusts of wind. However, power crews were out making repairs.