
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 20, 1994                   TAG: 9402200048
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-10   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

EVEN NOW, SOME WAIT FOR POWER

The number of people without power continued to decline Saturday as Virginia's electric utilities continued to repair damage from an ice storm nine days earlier.

"It's been steadily coming down," said Joe Weddle, the training and dispatch superintendent in Appalachian Power Co.'s Pulaski division.

The Virginia Maryland Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives said that by Friday, all power had been completely restored by its member cooperatives.

Virginia Power had restored power to virtually all customers by Saturday.

By 4 p.m., Apco had only about 200 customers still without electricity.

"I think we'll probably wrap this up tomorrow," Weddle said.

Mike Lively, an electrical engineer in the Lynchburg division, said there were about 25 scattered outages there on Saturday afternoon.

"People with no power should get on tonight and we'll get onto cleaning up tomorrow," he said.

- Associated Press

by CNB