LG&E, KU crews rapidly restore power following today’s severe weather outbreak
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Even though the calendar says it is the heart of winter, a spring-like severe weather outbreak swept through Kentucky today, causing more than 23,700 of our customers to lose power.
Jefferson County bore the brunt of the power outages and damage, which included winds clocked by the National Weather Service at 94 miles-per-hour and at least one confirmed tornado, which touched-down near Brownsboro Road and the Watterson Expressway.
As we always do, we prepared for the weather front before it hit our area, so our crews could immediately go into action to efficiently return power to affected customers as quickly and as safely as possible.
As of the 9:15 p.m. time of this posting, we've restored power to more than 94 percent of the customers impacted by today's freak storm.
We hope to have the majority of remaining customers back on tonight and anticipate having all customers restored tomorrow. The bottom-line: we're working around-the-clock.
Additionally, you'll want to visit our storm page for important phone numbers and safety information. Once there, you can view our online outage map for near real-time restoration updates. If you're a smart phone user, download our free mobile outage map app to get a high-level overview of outages across our service territory, a summary of outages by zip code and county, and estimated restoration times -- right from the palm of your hand.
Check out the photos below to get a feel for the type of damage and conditions our crews are dealing with in the field.
Possible funnel clouds over Zone Avenue moving east along Brownsboro Road. These clouds were rotating at the time.
Damage along Goose Creek Road off of Brownsboro Road.
Brownsboro Road west of Springdale Road.
Ten Broeck subdivision off of Brownsboro Road.
Jefferson County bore the brunt of the power outages and damage, which included winds clocked by the National Weather Service at 94 miles-per-hour and at least one confirmed tornado, which touched-down near Brownsboro Road and the Watterson Expressway.
As we always do, we prepared for the weather front before it hit our area, so our crews could immediately go into action to efficiently return power to affected customers as quickly and as safely as possible.
As of the 9:15 p.m. time of this posting, we've restored power to more than 94 percent of the customers impacted by today's freak storm.
We hope to have the majority of remaining customers back on tonight and anticipate having all customers restored tomorrow. The bottom-line: we're working around-the-clock.
Additionally, you'll want to visit our storm page for important phone numbers and safety information. Once there, you can view our online outage map for near real-time restoration updates. If you're a smart phone user, download our free mobile outage map app to get a high-level overview of outages across our service territory, a summary of outages by zip code and county, and estimated restoration times -- right from the palm of your hand.
Check out the photos below to get a feel for the type of damage and conditions our crews are dealing with in the field.
Possible funnel clouds over Zone Avenue moving east along Brownsboro Road. These clouds were rotating at the time.
Damage along Goose Creek Road off of Brownsboro Road. 
Brownsboro Road west of Springdale Road. 
Ten Broeck subdivision off of Brownsboro Road.
