Ice storm advisory team begins work
The 51-member panel held its first meeting Thursday, March 17.
Topic: Ice Storm 2022
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March 2022
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Preferential treatment? Group to examine how, who MLGW prioritizes for power restoration
Some City Council members noted that it seems like “certain people” get their electricity back first after outages.
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Gov. Lee moves for federal ice storm disaster declaration as council urges action
In a split vote, the council also approved a resolution backing the nomination of the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court and accepted a grant to hire a “pet reunification specialist” for Memphis Animal Services.
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February 2022
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Morgan: Selling MLGW almost an ‘impossibility’
During an hour-long online town hall Wednesday, Feb. 23, City Council member Worth Morgan and MLGW leaders fielded questions about recent increases in utility bills and the ice storm repairs.
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Next steps after ice storm recovery include increasing focus on trees
Speaking Thursday, Feb. 17, at the Frayser Exchange Club, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the city’s chronic power outages during frequent storms is mostly about the trees that dominate the city’s landscape. Strickland says any solution to the continuing outages will be expensive.
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City Council to review MLGW’s handling of ice storm
Also Tuesday, the council will consider opposing a bill in the Tennessee General Assembly that would outlaw any kind of residency requirement for police and firefighters.
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Strickland raises possibility of selling MLGW to take utilities underground
In his weekly email, Strickland said he isn’t recommending action at this point, but all options should be explored to cure how the city has been crippled by 14 major storms over the past 19 years, not counting the 1994 ice storm.
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How MLGW’s 10% is surviving: Living days without power
The Daily Memphian asked for people still without electricity to share their stories. Many of them have lost loads of groceries, are living with neighbors or have reached financial limits after being forced to buy rooms at local hotels.
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Six days out: Why 28,000 MLGW customers were still without power Wednesday
MLGW pushes back its estimate to have all customers restored and begins looking to fix smaller outages.
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More than 38,000 remain without power
The utility missed its goal by about three percentage points, with more than 40,000 homes and businesses still without power as the temperature goes above freezing in the city.
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As number of local power outages drop, repair difficulty increases
As of 5:30 p.m. Monday, more than 60,000 MLGW customers remained without power out of the 140,000 or so who initially lost it.
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Cohen asks Lee to seek federal disaster aid for city
The push for a state request for federal aid comes as MLGW’s damage estimate from the ice storm has already exceeded the threshold for seeking assistance.
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More than 60,000 remain without power
Out of about 140,000 Memphis Light, Gas & Water customers who lost power Thursday, thousands still do not have electricity.
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Memphis-Shelby schools closed Monday
During a press briefing Sunday afternoon, Memphis Light, Gas & Water officials said 29 local schools, public and private, still lacked electricity.
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The cold truth: Thousands remain without power
The number of people without power remained at about 20% of MLGW’s customers by 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Watch the MLGW winter storm update live
Watch live as Memphis Light, Gas & Water officials address the current state of restoring utility to customers without power due to the ice storm. To report outages, call 901-544-6500.
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Germantown, Bartlett issue emergency declarations over ice, power outages
Germantown and Bartlett issued emergency declarations Friday. Other suburban mayors are not issuing declarations at this time.
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