Be restored here, because its not just a one transformer job here. And as crews take care of the larger outages, a repair might restore 12 customers instead of 12hundred. So theres plenty of work ahead before everyone has power again. Live in roanoke joe dashiell wdbj7 thousands of people in our area are on day two of no power, and they want to know when its coming back. Appalachian powers teresa hall joins us now by phone, with some answers. Good afternoon, teresa. Kimberly mcbroom wdbj7 first, lets get the updated number of power outages, and which areas are still the most affected Kimberly Mcbroom wdbj7 it seems that the Roanoke Valley metro area has had the biggest chunk of outages since the beginning. Why do you think that is . Kimberly mcbroom wdbj7 as people are waiting for their power to come back on, are there any things that Kimberly Mcbroom wdbj7 if you do have an outage, do you just need to notify apco once, or checking in with the company . Its now been nearly 24 hours sin
Right. Another rough day here as you have described today. First graders from sandy hook elementary gathering to bury two more of their classmates while students at other schools here went back to class for the First Time Since the tragedy. The pain of saying goodbye has become a part of every day now in newtown. This grieving community buried two more first graders today. Jessica rekos loved horses and asked santa for cow girl boots and a hat for christmas. A first born, she liked to plan and organize so much her family called her their ceo. James mattioli, nicknamed jay, loved sports on his ipad. Early riser. He usually ended the day cuddled up on the couch next to his mom. There are so many here holding one another tight right now unable to sthak the horror. For jean ro. They kept saying that one of the boys said he had a big gun and a little gun. I i i could not fathom what they were talking about. Reporter he found the boys huddled in his yard after they ran past the gunman to esc