All Wirt County Schools will be closed on Friday and most of the county will be without power on Friday morning, due to a scheduled outage for an emergency repair.
Wirt County officials say Mon Power contacted them Wednesday afternoon to notify them that it has to make emergency repairs to some of its equipment in Wirt County, forcing an unexpected power outage to be planned for Friday, August, 31, from 6:00 AM until 11:00 AM.
The Wirt County Office of Emergency Services says Mon Power told them the ppower outage will affect around 3,000 customers, or a majority of the homes and businesses in Wirt County. |