The Glasgow EPB repairs power lines after hurricane-force winds made their way across Glasgow on Friday, March 3, 2023.
(GLASGOW ELECTRIC PLANT BOARD)
GLASGOW — Widespread internet outages continue to be a concern for the Glasgow Electric Plant Board.
Glasgow EPB’s support and operations personnel have worked around the clock since hurricane-force winds swept through Barren County on Friday afternoon. Soon after the high winds arrived, power lines and poles began to fall.
Whether it was from a tree falling or structural debris hitting electric equipment, damages were sustained to Glasgow’s electric and broadband grid all throughout Friday evening and into the early hours of Saturday morning. The fallout from this disastrous weather event is still being felt as our local utilities are still working to restore all affected services to those in Glasgow/Barren County.
At the peak of the event, the Glasgow EPB had over 75% of its total service area (over 5,000 customers) without power or broadband service, they said. Late Monday afternoon, GEPB operations staff announced virtually all restoration efforts were complete to its power grid.
With that work being completed, efforts are now being focused on restoring the more than 600 cable and/or internet customers who are still without broadband service.
The reasoning for these delays in broadband service restoration varies in the type of repairs needed. A large portion of these repairs involve the reconstruction of entire portions of hardline coaxial cable that feeds GEPB’s broadband grid. Other areas of the broadband grid will require new fiber optic cables to be spliced in. Finally, some areas south of Glasgow’s city limits will be offline until power is restored by Farmers RECC to the broadband equipment feeding those customers.
Due to the variety of repairs needed, GEPB operations personnel are expecting broadband service repairs to take place over the next two days before all GEPB broadband customers will see their services restored. The areas GEPB staff are acutely aware of still being without broadband services include:
Glenview Drive, Simmental Lane, Hereford Lane, Longhorn Street, Shorthorn Street, Scottie Drive, New Salem Road, the odd side of Eastview Drive, Shamrock Place, McGrah Avenue, areas of Park Avenue, Adams Place, the odd side of Circle Spring Drive, part of Wedgewood Drive, the 500 block of Lexington Drive, Magnolia Drive, Maple Avenue, Lyon Avenue, Beverly Hills Drive, the beginning of and up to the 500 block of South Fork Road, the even side of Meadow Drive, South Fork Terrace, Pine Ridge Road, and the 3000 block of South Fork Road.
For a full listing of all areas still in need of broadband service restoration, visit GlasgowEPB.com. For instant updates about outages in your area, GEPB customers can also sign up for GEPB Alerts via phone call, text message, and email at glasgowepb.com/alerts.