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SCE&G’s 190,000 customers lost power on Monday. About 5,000 Berkeley County customers, or 21 percent, lost power. And 14,500 Dorchester County customers, or 25 percent, lost power.A total of 273,000 SCE&G customers in 24 counties served by the utility lost power because of the storm. Utility trucks will make the rounds to repair damaged power lines throughout the day Tuesday and well into the week.Customers of electric cooperatives who lost power also will see action on Tuesday.More than 300 line workers from Arkansas, Virginia, West Virginia and possibly North Carolina will bring equipment and muscle to assist local workers in the effort to restore power. Construction crews will replace poles and lines. Other crews will attend to fallen lines, debris from trees and individual homes whose electric lines need repair.“We’ll do an assessment on damage in South Carolina on Tuesday morning,” said Todd Carter, whose department coordinates assistance for the state’s electric cooperatives.The "First Push Agreement" approved on Sept. 8 by Dorchester County Council and the S.C. Department of Transportation obligates DOT, with help from the county, to begin removing debris from major roadways within five hours of the end of storm conditions, according to county spokeswoman Tiffany Norton.Utility crews will address problems caused by trees in power lines.Though public schools and some businesses will remain closed on Tuesday, many retailers, restaurants and offices will be assessing the storm’s impacts, repairing damage and reopening. Expect more traffic than usual as evacuees stream back into the Lowcountry and beyond. +5 span cl... (Charleston Post Courier)
My Block My Hood My City. The cleanup will consist of projects on 22 blocks in Woodlawn from 61st to 67th Street Stony Island Ave., to Dorchester Ave. “We’re starting in Jackson Park as the kickoff,” said Jenee Myers, CEO of Chicago Cares. “In that area, there are a lot of vacant city-owned lots. They [volunteers] will be spending the morning making public art, landscaping and cleaning up empty lots and the Metra corridor.” The project aligns with the My Block My Hood My City’s one block at a time initiative, which is, is a volunteer program. Volunteers meet four times a year to conduct service related projects across the city. Chicago Cares specializes in organizing volunteers and partners with corporations to clean up, transform and connect people from all parts of the city. The organization will assist in uniting volunteers for the community event on Saturday. Myers noted that My Block My Hood My City and Chicago Cares share the similar goals in connecting people in different parts of the city. “We have been mobilizing volunteers for over 25 years. We do that to strengthen and unify the city. We believe that volunteering can create connections,” Myers said.My Block My Hood My City was formed out of Cook County’s Juvenile Detention Center in 2013. Currently, the organization is based in the Chatham neighborhood.Cole assists teenagers from under resourced communities in Chicago and takes them on educational field trips exposing th... (Hyde Park Herald)
