{"id":156168,"date":"2021-02-21T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=156168"},"modified":"2021-02-21T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T15:43:37","slug":"thousands-remain-without-power-across-w-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-remain-without-power-across-w-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands remain without power across W.Va."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-remain-without-power-across-w-va%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=156168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2375715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375715\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2375715\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21046736557626-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Holland of Huntington, from right, and seven-year-old Max spend the afternoon watching the birds at Harris Riverfront Park after a winter storm brings snow and ice to the area on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Huntington, W.Va. (Ryan Fischer\/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2375715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Holland of Huntington, from right, and seven-year-old Max spent the afternoon watching the birds at Harris Riverfront Park after a winter storm brought snow and ice to the area on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Huntington, W.Va. (Ryan Fischer\/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:45 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, February 21, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Thousands of residents in Virginia were without power following historic back to back ice storms. In an attempt to get the power back online, electrical crews worked throughout West Virginia on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damage in the Westover Hills neighborhood of Richmond, Va. Ice accumulation is weighing down tree limbs, causing them to snap &amp; bring down power lines.<\/p>\n<p>Our crews are now assessing damage &amp; making repairs &amp; will continue to work until all customers have their lights back on. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rva?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5KuJTltnBP\">pic.twitter.com\/5KuJTltnBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dominion Energy (@DominionEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DominionEnergy\/status\/1362782787636514816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While residents complained of restoration efforts being too slow, Southside Electric in Virginia said they had 12 times the amount of workforce working around the clock to restore power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis example is the severe damage we had on our system across all entire 18 counties that we serve,\u201d Southside electric CEO Jeff Edwards said. \u201cThis is a slow process because of the nature of the damage that we incurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, tens of thousands continue to remain without power across Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee as well.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/mo-state-lawmakers-push-forward-2nd-amendment-protections\/\">Mo. State Lawmakers Push Forward 2nd Amendment Protections<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181276,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21046736557626-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Thousands remain without power across W.Va.","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21046736557626-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Thousands remain without power across W.Va.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}