Hurricane delays local work

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September 13, 2018 - 10:36 AM

LAHARPE — LaHarpe is roughly 1,200 miles away from where Hurricane Florence was beginning to pound the East Coast today, but the massive storm still has affected the local electric upgrade project.

Crews in LaHarpe this summer have been dispatched to the Carolinas to assist with the expected electric outages once Florence makes landfall, said Eric Hethcoat of BG Consultants.

The crews are scheduled to be out of LaHarpe for about two weeks, Hethcoat said.

The timing, while unexpected, should not hamper the schedule, Hethcoat explained, because the next step — installing new transformers and utility poles — was expected to begin around Oct. 1, anyway.

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