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Thousands Of Allegany County Residents Remain Without Power

July 2nd, 2012 by WCBC Radio

Thousands of Allegany County residents remained without power Sunday- including many businesses in the LaVale area. Severe storms moved through the region Friday and Saturday causing significant damage. While many of those businesses had service restored- there were still situations with traffic lights not functioning. In Cumberland the Constitution Park Swimming Pool was closed for the weekend as a result of having no electricity. At the height of the outages. indications from Potomac Edison and Emergency Management are that around 12,000 customers were impacted. Emergency Management Director Dick Devore said that while that situation had improved by early Sunday evening- there were still some issues to address…





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