TUPELO â¢Â Even though several inches of snow on Wednesday night sprinkled roads and the tops of homes across the state, most of Tupelo, Lee County and Northeast Mississippi continued to have access to electricity.
âWe dodged a bullet last night,â said Johnny Timmons, the director of Tupelo Water and Light. âWe got snow instead of freezing rain. We were lucky, lucky, lucky.â
Timmons said that only one home in Tupelo briefly lost electricity last night, but it seemed to be an isolated incident and not part of a larger outage.
Tombigbee Electric Power Association, which provides power to portions of Lee, Itawamba, Union and Prentiss counties, currently has around 82 customers without power.
TUPELO • Key government buildings operated by Lee County and the city of Tupelo will remain closed Thursday because of the threat of more severe winter weather.