Residents Returning From Holidays

Contact Blue Ridge Electric if Power is Out

Lenoir, North Carolina (December 31, 2009) - Residents of Watauga County just returning from the holidays after being away from their homes for awhile should contact Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation if they arrive to find they have no power.

Although power restoration is complete, as final locations are repaired after a major storm and restoration process there may be isolated, single residence outages that are difficult to detect. Therefore, members in Watauga County who are at their service location and still do not have power are asked to contact the cooperative at (828) 264-8894 or 1-800-448-2383.

Line technicians will continue cleanup work and final details into this weekend.

At the height of the outage which occurred as a result of the most devastating ice storm in recent history that hit on Christmas Day, more than 25,000 members of the cooperative were without power in Watauga, Ashe, Caldwell, and Alleghany counties as well as parts of Wilkes and Avery counties.

Find more information at www.BlueRidgeEMC.com or on Blue Ridge Electric's Facebook page.

The electric cooperative serves some 73,000 members in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes, Avery and Alexander counties.