Update: Power in Beaufort County is back — almost
Hundreds of people in Beaufort County were without power after a winter storm blanketed the area in ice and snow Wednesday, and the outages lingered on into Thursday, but by Friday, just one outage in Beaufort County was reported.
According to SCE&G’s outage map, there is one outage in Beaufort County. Statewide, there are about a thousand outages as of 8 a.m., with more than 850 of those concentrated in Newberry County.
Palmetto Electric reported no outages in Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties, company spokesman Tray Hunter said Friday morning.
SCE&G spokeswoman Ginny Jones said Thursday melting ice and falling tree limbs were a concern, but SCE&G had “plenty” of resources in place to respond to problems in order to restore power. Jones said that the worst damage that SCE&G has seen from the storm has been in the exterior islands like St. Helena Island.
Michael Olinger: 843-706-8107, @mikejolinger
This story was originally published January 4, 2018 at 9:45 AM with the headline "Update: Power in Beaufort County is back — almost."