REC offering COVID-19 utility relief funds to qualifying member-owners
REC offering COVID-19 utility relief funds to qualifying member-owners By Patrick Huddleston | January 6, 2021 at 4:20 PM EST - Updated January 6 at 6:30 PM
CULPEPER, Va. (WVIR) - Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) was recently awarded $4.8 million in federal Coronavirus Relief Funds. Those funds will be used to assist member-owners who have fallen behind on their electric bill payments from March 1, 2020 through October 31, 2020 due to an economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eligible member-owners were notified in December 2020 either by mail, email or phone to apply for the funding.
“When we determine who was eligible for the funding, we also were able to determine how much of the funding they were eligible for. So in our communications to those member-owners, we have let them know the amount that they can apply for,” REC Director of Communications & Public Relations Casey Hollin
It was back to business as usual Thursday afternoon after winter storm Gail dropped several inches of snow throughout Warren and Shenandoah counties Wednesday.
According to the National Weather Service, 9 inches of snow had fallen in Front Royal by 9 a.m. Thursday and 11.5 inches had fallen in Basye by 11:53 p.m. Wednesday. Almost 9 inches had fallen by 3:02 a.m. Thursday in Shenandoah County.
Road conditions were reported by the Virginia Department of Transportation as clear on Interstate 66 in Warren County and on I-81 in Shenandoah County by 11 a.m.
Primary and secondary roads in Warren County were down to bare pavement except for isolated spots of snow, ice or slush, by about 4:15 p.m. VDOTâs website reported âno adverse road conditions for Shenandoah County primary roads by about 6:15 p.m. Route 758 (Woodstock Tower Road) West and East were closed for ice, VDOTâs website reported around the same time.