A crew of five Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation workers are in North Carolina assisting with power restoration in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
They are assisting the Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation in Wadesboro, 50 miles southeast of Charlotte, which had 20,000 consumers without power as of Sunday night.
Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives dispatched the JPEC members Sunday morning. JPEC is based in Paducah.
