Rural electric cooperatives are struggling to keep up with falling power poles and lines and muddy rural roads.
Carrie Vugteveen with Sioux Valley Energy, based in Colman, says they are working to get all their customers back online…
Vugteveen says while making repairs, they are still finding damage….
Vugteveen says their crews are facing difficult times getting to the damage…
Vugteveen says they have brought in help with twenty seven contractors and line workers from FEM Electric, Codington-Clark Electric, H-D Electric and Lake Region Electric. Sioux Valley has over twenty-five thousand customers.
