MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After a second round of severe weather knocked out power to more than 30,000 MLGW customers Sunday night, the utility said power restoration efforts have been completed for those customers as of early Wednesday evening.
MLGW said as of early Wednesday evening, power had been restored to the 121,400 customers who lost power on June 25 and 35,000 affected on July 2.
As of 4:40 p.m., MLGW's outage map showed about 450 customers without power. We reached out to the utility to find out if those customers were not considered part of the storm damage.
The utility said these storms rank as the sixth most destructive in MLGW history.
MLGW said they are prepared to respond to another risk of severe storms, and the cycle of storm – restoration – repeat has slowed down the utility’s infrastructure improvements, but it has not stopped them.
“It is going to get better, we will make our system more reliable and more resilient," MLGW President Doug McGowen said.
MLGW released a time lapse video of the restoration efforts since June 25: