Osage Valley Electric Cooperative Crews still working hard in Louisiana

Osage Valley crews continue to work hard to restore power to the members of DEMCO in the Baton Rouge area. They started the week with nearly 80% of their 112,459 members without power. Today 42% still remain without power.

Restoration efforts are made more strenuous due to wet, swampy terrain around the greater Baton Rouge area coupled with the swath of damage Ida left behind. Missouri crews have used everything in their arsenal, including boats and utility vehicles to help bring down the outage numbers.

Missouri’s co-ops sent 173 lineworkers to Louisiana. Also assisting DEMCO are cooperative lineworkers from Kentucky, Oklahoma and Florida.

Please keep the safety of the lineworkers as well as the citizens of Louisiana in your thoughts and prayers as they build back what #HurricaneIda destroyed.

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