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More than 55,000 people without power across Virginia due to weather impacts from Helene

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Appalachian Power

Pictured is just some of the damage around the Roanoke, Christiansburg and Lovingston areas in Virginia early this morning and this afternoon.

UPDATE: Oct. 1 at 9:55 p.m.

Appalachian Power Company is still working to restore power to customers in our region. They hope to have power restored by the end of the day Thursday.

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UPDATE - Sept. 30 at 9:30 p.m.

Appalachian Power Crews said Monday that they had restored power to 25,000 customers across Southern Virginia, Southern West Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. As of 9:30 more than 70,000 are without power in our region.

According to Appalachian Power Company around 73,400 of the remaining affected customers are in Virginia.

AEP hopes to have power restored to those affected by outages by end of day Tuesday.


ORIGINAL STORY

If you’re in the dark, you’re not alone! More than 80,000 people are without power across the Commonwealth due to the impacts of Helene.

Appalachian Power said more than 4,000 employees and contractors are working to restore power, as well as additional crews from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. However, they said that restoration work is expected to go into Sunday, and possibly beyond then. The lesser-impacted areas will likely get their power restored sooner rather than later.

10 News reporter Samuel King spoke with AEP regarding their work to restore your power.

Below are the worst outage areas among the 80,000 Appalachian Power customers in Virginia without power in our region, as of 3 p.m on Monday, Sept. 30:

  • Bedford: 66
  • Bland: 2,703
  • Botetourt: 647
  • Buchanan: 1,532
  • Carroll: 10,928
  • Floyd: 543
  • Franklin: 172
  • Galax: 374
  • Giles: 1,080
  • Grayson: 10,236
  • Henry: 17
  • Montgomery: 204
  • Patrick: 797
  • Pittsylvania: 15
  • Pulaski: 129
  • Roanoke: 1,410
  • Roanoke City: 791
  • Smyth: 8,222
  • Wise: 588
  • Wythe: 3,007

Appalachian Power also would like to remind residents to be aware of downed power lines! If you see one, you can report it at 1-800-956-4237. Stay away from the power lines and stay safe!


About the Authors
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Jazmine Otey joined the 10 News team in February 2021.

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Colton joined the WSLS 10 team as a digital content producer in July 2024, soon after graduating cum laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in sociology and a minor in psychology.

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