June 17, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE
JUNE 20, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 6:50 am: Last night crews were able to complete restoration efforts in the Vesuvius area of Rockbridge County. As we enter into this morning, we have 34 consumers without power on the western side of our system. Crews will be focusing all efforts on these consumers today.
We thank you all for your patience, understanding and support throughout this prolonged outage period. Our team is dedicated to fully restoring power to everyone we serve. We will provide updates as they are available today.
JUNE 19, 2021 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 9:50 pm: As of now, we are down to 60 customers without power. Crews have been dedicated to restoring power for our service area since storms hit Friday evening. We know this has been a long outage period and we truly appreciate patience, understanding and support. Thank you!
We do still have crews out in the field this evening, however it is likely the many of the 60 customers without power right now will not be restored tonight. We do apologize for this. Please know we are working on it and we have not forgotten you.
In Rockbridge County, we have 24 customers out in Vesuvius and 1 out on Brattons Run.
In Bath / Alleghany County, we have the following out:
Upper Airport: 7
Coles Mountain: 3
Big Lick (Lake Moomaw): 6
Campbell Hollow: 3
Elks Camp: 1
Pads Creek: 12
Crews will return tomorrow, Monday, June 20th to continue restoration efforts for customers who are not restored this evening. Again, we do apologize for this prolonged outage and appreciate hanging in there with us.
We will resume outage updates on Monday morning: Stay safe!
JUNE 19, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 8:15 pm: Crews have continued working today to repair damage to our electric system caused by storms Friday afternoon. The extensive damage broke more than 20 power poles across our system, downed power lines and disrupted service with 1 transmission line and 3 distribution lines. At the height of the outage period, BARC had about 7,900 electric customers without service.
As of now, there are still about 225 electric customers on our system that do not have power. First and foremost, we value all our members and want you to know you have not been forgotten. Unfortunately, right now it looks like restoration efforts will continue for some areas into Monday, June 20th. We apologize for this prolonged outage and truly appreciate everyone’s patience, understanding and support. Likely, you have certainly seen the amount of damage created Friday and our crews are working as safely and quickly as possible to restore power.
Power restoration is a process. We understand that when our customers have been without power for many hours or days, it is extremely inconvenient, and we do apologize. Crews begin restoration efforts with 3-phase circuits and at substations. This allows crews to progress outward, making repairs and noting damage to the electric system. Restoration occurs in segments, and as the outward progression continues, they will isolate damage and restore tap lines to restore power that serve the most customers or that require the least amount of time. As restoration continues, crews will them progress to tap and service lines. Unfortunately, smaller tap lines serving small numbers of homes and long tap lines serving single services get restored last.
We want to explain this to you because we are in the tap and service line phase now as crews are continuing making repairs and this is taking some additional time.
On the eastern side of our system in Rockbridge County there are still about 150 customers without power in Irish Creek, Vesuvius, South River, Rt. 11 south, members served by our Lexington substation, and Brattons Run.
On the western side of our service area, there are about 35 customers without power in the areas of upper airport, Coles Mountain, Big Lick (Lake Moomaw), Perry Hollow, Elks Camp, Pads Creek and Campbell Hollow.
We cannot say enough that we understand prolonged outages can be frustrating and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Our team is working to get to you all and restore your power. Thank you for hanging in there!
JUNE 19, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 6:20 pm: We want to thank all of our members for hanging in there with us since Friday afternoon as we have been working to restore power.
At this time we have about 240 electric consumers without power. Crews are still working Bath and Rockbridge counties replacing broken poles and repairing damage and downed wore. We know this been a long outage period for many of you and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Crews are in areas that are in very remote portions of our service area and are difficult to access. Please know we have not forgotten you and we are working as safely and quickly as possible to restore your power.
JUNE 19, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE as of 7:00 am: Crews are continuing restoration efforts from Friday’s storm damage to our electric system. At this time, we have about 750 electric consumers without power. We know that many of you have been without power since Friday and we apologize for that. Our crews have been dedicated to restoring everyone’s power and have been working safely and as quickly as possible to make that happen. Thank you for hanging in there with us and for your patience and support!
This storm event broke 14 of our power poles and the amount of wire taken down from fallen trees and limbs is far too large to count. We have 6 pole replacements scheduled for today on our system – each of these take several hours to complete. After this work is done, it will take about 2 more hours to repair and pull wire.
Pole replacements and repairing damage will continue on both the east and west side of our system today. Outage numbers by county include:
Alleghany: 62
Bath: 148
Rockbridge: 541
We will provide updates throughout the day as they are available from the field. Thank you!
JUNE 18, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 9:35 pm: Crews have continued to make progress throughout the day and evening with power restoration efforts. At this time we have about 970 electric consumers still without power. Thank you all so much for your patience, understanding and support!
As we stated earlier, there are still many areas across our entire electric system where restoration efforts will continue into Sunday. We do apologize for this inconvenience. The extensive damage to our electric system from yesterday’s storms has necessitated the need for many repairs to broken power poles, downed line as well as to transmission and distribution lines.
The current outage number breakouts by counties include:
Alleghany: 12
Bath: 156
Highland: 163
Rockbridge: 540
Thank you all so much for hanging in there with us the past two days as crews have been out working as safely and quickly as they possible to restore power to all members. We understand this has been a prolonged outage period for many of you who have been without power since Friday afternoon. Please know we are working to get everyone back online as quickly as possible. Thank you and stay safe!
JUNE 18, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 8:00 pm: Crews are continuing restoration efforts and making steady progress. At this time, we have about 1,400 electric consumers without power across our service territory. As we stated earlier, based on what crews have been encountering today making repairs, restoration efforts will continue into Sunday. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding. We know many of you have been without power since Friday afternoon and want to assure you we are working hard to restore power and we have not forgotten you.
There have been areas where power was restored for a period of time and then was lost again. As crews continue making their way across the system they are finding additional issues and damage that may create an outage so that repairs can be made on the full line. Please be patient with us.<.p>
Again – we truly appreciate everyone’s patience, understanding and support. Our crews are working to get everyone’s power restored as quickly as possible. We realize that being without power is a HUGE inconvenience and that prolonged outages like this make life more difficult. We are out there and working for you!
JUNE 18, 2022 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 5:00 pm: BARC crews and Lee crews are still out this evening working on electric system repairs and restoration efforts. They are making progress, but due to the extent of the damage from yesterday’s storms, this work is taking time.
Based on what we have seen today, BARC’s restoration efforts will go into Sunday. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding. We know many of you have been without power since Friday afternoon and want to assure you we are working hard to restore power and we have not forgotten you.
The amount of downed trees, power lines, downed distribution and transmission lines and broken poles is significant. We are working as safely and quickly as possible to get to everyone and we understand that power loss creates many issues for our customers.
We have several crews in Rockbridge County where the majority of outages on our system are located at this time.
We have crews working in Falling Springs in Bath County and in the northern section of our service area in Highland County.
Due to the damage, we are not able to provide timeframes for restoration.
Right now we have about 1,650 electric consumers without power. Breakouts by county include:
Alleghany: 48
Bath: 353
Highland: 163
Rockbridge: 1.014
We know this is a difficult situation for everyone and ask that you please hang in there with us while our crews work to get you restored. Thank you everyone! We value our members and appreciate your patience and support.
JUNE 18, 2022 OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 12:55 pm: We know many of you have been without power since yesterday afternoon. We want to assure you our BARC crews and crews from Lee are in the field working as quickly as possible to restore power. They are dealing with numerous downed trees, broken power poles and downed power lines.
Currently we have crews in Effinger, Bustleburg and Cornwall in Rockbridge County and in Millboro in Bath County. Right now, crews are working to repair 6 power distribution areas damaged in yesterday’s storms. We also still have a transmission feed down. Crews are working to replace the transmission and 3 distribution poles at this time.
We greatly appreciate your understanding and patience. We know this is getting tiresome to be without power. Our crews and assistance crews are working as safely and quickly as possible. At this time we have about 2,800 customers still without power.
Stay safe and we will continue to provide updates as they are available from the field.
JUNE 18, 2022 OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 8:25 am: Thank you everyone for your patience!
At this time we still have about 3,300 electric consumers without power. Breakouts by county include:
Alleghany: 208
Bath: 602
Highland: 157
Rockbridge: 1,250
BARC has 4 crews with Lee coming in now to help with restoration efforts on our system.
BARC crews are dispatched in the field and working on large outage areas now and replacing broken poles. They are also continuing to patrol line on our system and finding additional issues this morning from damage sustained yesterday.
We understand the inconvenience of power outages and are working as safely and quickly as possible to restore power to everyone on our electric system. The damage from yesterday’s storms was significant and restoration efforts are taking time.
Again, thank you for your patience and understanding!
OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 11:00 pm: First and foremost we want to thank everyone for your patience this evening. Our part of Virginia was severely hit with storm damage and power outages earlier today. Our crews have been in the field working since the storms hit clearing trees and debris and making repairs to poles and downed power lines since outages began occurring and are continuing to do so.
Unfortunately, there are still more than 3,800 electric consumers on BARC’s system without power. We apologize for the amount of time it’s taking to restore power to everyone, but unfortunately BARC sustained significant damage to our electric system with widespread outages.
Many outage areas on our system will not be restored this evening. If your power is not restored tonight, we recommend that you report your outage again on Saturday morning through the mobile app or by calling 800-846-2272. We greatly apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding.
Dominion is still working on their transmission line that is impacting some of our outage areas in Rockbridge and Bath counties. We do not have an ETR for when this will work will be completed.
Again…we understand no one likes being without power and our crews are working as safely and quickly as possible on restoration efforts. We value our members and sincerely appreciate your understanding and support while restoration efforts are occurring. Please stay safe!
OUTAGE UPDATE as of 10pm: At this time there are about 3,800 electric consumers still without power across our electric service area. BARC crews are still out making repairs to damage sustained from storms earlier this afternoon which caused widespread outages. Our area has a significant number of downed trees and power lines which takes time to clear and repair. Outages by county include:
Alleghany: 231
Bath: 628
Highland: 133
Rockbridge: 1,514
We want to make our members aware that there are areas without power that likely will not be restored until Saturday, June 18th. Crews will continue working this evening but will come in for rest around midnight, resuming restoration efforts on Saturday at 6 am.
We realize no one likes to be without power and we do appreciate everyone’s patience. At the height of our outage period, BARC had over 6,900 consumers without power. While steady progress is being made we want to ensure you crews are working as safely and quickly as possible to restore power to all of our electric consumers.
Please stay safe!
OUTAGE UPDATE as of 8:10 pm: Crews are making progress restoring power across the service area. We do appreciate everyone’s patience while crews continue working to remove downed trees and debris, repair downed poles and power lines and make repairs. As of now, there are about 3,707 customers without power. A breakout by county includes:
Alleghany: 37
Bath: 156
Highland: 133
Rockbridge: 2,304
We were able to move some Bath County customers over to another distribution feed to restore power in Hot Springs and Warm Springs. Crews have also been able to restore power in Millboro Spring, however Rt. 42 in Millboro is still partially out and crews are working on it now. Crews are also patrolling the line near Falling Springs and Carloover.
In Rockbridge County, crews are working in the areas of Effinger, Bustleburg and Fairfield to make system repairs.
The Dominion transmission issue is due to a broken insulator at their Goshen station. They are working to make repairs.
We do greatly appreciate everyone’s understanding this evening. Our electric system sustained severe damage across our service territory and our crews are working as safely and quickly as possible to restore power. We will continue to provide updates as they are available from the field.
Please stay safe!
OUTAGE UPDATE as of 6:30 pm: At this time we have more than 6,900 electric consumers without power. Severe storms are the cause for this evening’s widespread power outages. across our entire electric service territory We have many areas with downed trees and wire.
Repairs for the damage on our electric system will take much time and we want to warn our consumers that for some of these areas this may be a two day restoration event.
Dominion has taken our transmission offline that serves Brattons Run and some of Cornwall in Rockbridge County and Millboro, Warm Springs, and Falling Springs in Bath County.
We have a broken transmission structure on our Cornwall substation in Rockbridge County. We are working now to repair and get customers served by this sub online.
We have broken poles and downed line in Hot Springs in Bath County and lots of wire down in Highland County. Crews have been dispatched to these areas.
BARC crews are continuing to assess the total damage to our electric system this evening in order to make repairs and restore power as safely and quickly as possible. We know that none of you want to be without power and we appreciate your patience and understanding while BARC crews are out working. We want everyone to be safe and we are working to get everyone online as quickly as possible.
We will continue to provide updates this evening.
As of 6:00 pm: There are currently over 6,900 electric consumers without power across our service area. Breakouts by county include:
Alleghany: 230
Bath: 2,825
Highland: 469
Rockbridge: 3,397
Storms across our service territory caused 96 outage areas this evening. BARC crews have been dispatched and are working as safely and quickly as possible to restore power. We do appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding. With this large amount of outage areas, it will take time for crews to assess damage, make repairs and restore power. As of now, we are not able to provide estimated times for restoration.
Thank you for your understanding and please stay safe.
If you see a downed power line, please stay away as it may be energized and deadly. Please call emergency services or BARC to report downed lines.
With the amount of consumers currently without power, our phone lines may be overwhelmed for reporting outages. Please be patient and try your call again. You can also use your BARC mobile app to report outages.