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The number of electricity issues proved to be the toughest part of the storms that impacted Warren County Sunday morning.
County Executive Jimmy Haley said the community has again proved resilient.
“My volunteers and Caney Fork Electric have been working tirelessly to get poles up and line strung,” Haley said. “I want to commend all of those utility workers and all the volunteers that about their doing the cleanup. Of course, it’s it’s been a daunting task on top of everything else we’ve been doing.”
Everything else includes Warren County’s first COVID-19 case this week. With so many at home, electricity became more important than ever.
“A lot of people were already, you know, home sheltering and then to be at home with children from school and then not not having electricity on top of it to you know, it created some some panic amongst people,” Haley said. “I got several phone calls to my office about when electricity was going to come out and what they were going to do. And elderly people in particular were a little bit afraid. But, you know, we’ve we’ve come through.”
Haley said all necessary precautions have been taken countywide to protect people from COVID-19. He urged residents to follow the protocols.
