Thousands of Kentuckians woke up to bitterly cold homes Friday morning. Circuit overloads knocked out power to households all across the Commonwealth.
When temperatures dip double digits below zero, auxiliary heat inside homes can run just about non-stop. That, along with all of the other early morning power sapping activities can cause circuit overloads. Kentucky Utilities' Cliff Feltham says, during the peak of the outage, more than 18,000 customers were without power. "And it wasn't all in one area,” Feltham says. “It was scattered about our KU service territory from I-65 East to the Virginia border."
By mid-morning Friday, Feltham says there were about 2,000 KU customers still lacking power.
The weather forecast calls for the possibility of everything from snow to ice to rain over the weekend. Feltham says outages are certainly in the cards. "Probably our customers are going to be affected with different types of weather circumstances, depending on where those customers are located," added Feltham.
Feltham says company officials have been monitoring weather reports for this weekend. He says it doesn't appear an ice storm is in the offing like that which struck central Kentucky in 2003. ?
