Louisville Gas and Electric Company says it has nearly 1,900 people working to restore power to homes and businesses left without service in Sunday's windstorm. It's the largest power restoration effort in company history.As of late Thursday afternoon, about 121,000 customers in LG and E's service area were without power, down from more than 300,000 at the height of the outage.Spokesperson Chip Keeling says it still could be well over a week from now before all customers are back on line."That's even on top of the fact that we've uncovered additional wiredowns, a lot of poles still broken, a number of poles still broken, both of those numbers have escalated, " Keeling said. "We're still going to hold to 10 to 14 days (from last Sunday)"Meanwhile, Jefferson County Public Schools officials say they're still hoping to resume classes Monday. More than 100 schools across the district were left without power by the storm.
Rick Howlett was midday host and the host of LPM's weekly talk show, "In Conversation." He was with LPM from 2001-2023 and held many different titles, including Morning Edition host, Assignment Editor and Interim News Director. He died in August 2023. Read a remembrance of Rick here.
