MLGW disables outage texts as thousands still without power
Sunday’s thunderstorms impacted a total of 48,000 Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division customers. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
MLGW customers received a text Sunday that said, “due to the number of outages, outage-update texts are disabled.”
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MLGW Juneteenth power outageNick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has written for Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
Also while a student at the U of M, he received the Otis Sanford Outstanding Journalism Student award and the 2nd Place Marc Perrusquia Investigative Journalism Award for a story about the demographic makeup of the school’s sports teams.
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