Excelsior EMC down to 220 customers out
Crews from four other states help local power co-op


As of 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Excelsior EMC reported that line crews had reduced the Hurricane Irma outages in the electric cooperative’s eight-county service area to those affecting 220 member customers. This included 91 Excelsior EMC customer accounts still without power in Bulloch County. Damage to the Metter-based Electric Membership Corporation’s grid from trees and limbs falling onto power lines had been “widespread and severe,” a spokesman said in the emailed statement.
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