North Arkansas Electric Cooperative CEO Mel Coleman spoke with KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot News and says with the forecast changes overnight, they expect some outages, but not a system-wide outage.
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Well, you know, as the overnight forecast changed I became a little bit more concerned. You know I still wanna emphasize, this is not an ice storm situation where we’re expecting several days of bad things happen and 5 degrees you know following it. This is a typical heavy I think wet snow that’s at least what they’re saying. When we talked earlier and they were saying we’d get 2 to 4 and overnight that went to 6 to 8 and you know some people ever even saying some places get around ten inches. So what’s that gonna do to us, well for North Arkansas Electric that that’s gonna cost some problems. It’ll be problems all over the system, but it’s not a systemwide outage, if you know what I’m saying. You get that kind of weight on a tree limb, especially a dead tree limb it’s gonna come down. It’s gonna hit the lines. It’s gonna take them down and we’re gonna have some outages so I’m just not gonna be honest we’re not panicking about it. It’s gonna be uh, I hate to say a normal outage event because we don’t like outages at all, but it’s not gonna be anything like a major ice storm, but we are gonna see some outages. We’re ready to respond. Talk to all of our assets this morning all of our people this morning. They’re in place. So we just asked the members to be prepared as well don’t panic just be prepared.
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