Parts of Wayne County Still Without Power | News

PPL reported that nearly 5,000 homes and businesses in Wayne County were still without power as of Wednesday.

PPL officials were joined by a crew from Kentucky, looking over maps of power lines near Honesdale.

PPL is paying for the extra power crews who are far from home.

“I's tough a little bit, you got kids at home and family, and what not, but it's good to be here helping people get their power back on,” said Kentucky power worker Bryan Baldwin.

PPL is tackling a big job fixing countless miles of storm damage.

“It's terrible, as far as I know nobody on our road has power,” said storm victim Lindsay Cole.

“I would like to live 70 years ago when they didn't have power. Today everybody thinks you need it all the time, so when you do lose it, you're in the dark in more ways than one,” said Danny Turner of Turner Electric.

Turner said his services are in big demand.

“We've been going pretty steady getting people's generators hooked up for them and  hooking up well pumps and that. Yesterday every job we were on there would be somebody standing there. We would be on one job trying to get them going and somebody would be standing there waiting for us to go someplace else,” said Turner.

Storm victim Dora Faye Henry said preparation was key.

“Being for warned that we would have a storm, I had water ready and I had ice and I tried to be prepared as much as possible,” said Henry.

The folks we talked to, from the utility workers to those without power all agree, they won't soon forget Hurricane Irene.