January 13–15, 1999
Ice Storm Causes Preston County’s Worst Outage in Years
A powerful winter storm left more than one inch of ice in parts of Preston County. Falling branches and power lines cut electricity to more than 3,000 county homes, producing what the utility called Preston County’s worst power outage since 1983.
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NOAA/National Weather Service, Storm Data, January 1999, West Virginia, p. 243
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