Latest Blue Ridge outage report

By 11:50 am today, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative had 24,933 members without power. The by-county breakdown:

Anderson 3,972

Greenville 634

Oconee 14,297

Pickens 6,029

Spartanburg -0-

Service has been restored to three substations in Pickens County that were affected by failure of a transmission line. Crews have encountered a good number of broken poles. Repair crews continue to work on the badly damaged transmission line near Seneca that has left seven other substations out of service. Power has been restored to more than 10,000 locations since 6:00 a.m. today