Around 66,222 Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) customers have no power Monday morning following an ice storm late last week.
MLGW officials said Sunday evening that they expect to have power restored to 90 percent of all its customers by Monday at midnight. However, for the remaining 10 percent of customers with no power, they may have to wait until Thursday for the lights to come back on.
“As the number of power outages drop, the difficulty for restoration increases for [MLGW] crews,” reads a statement from the utility.
Since the storm hit Thursday, MLGW crews have restored power to 209,233 customers. Crews and troubleshooters were fanned out across the MLGW service area Monday, according to MLGW’s ice storm dashboard.
