Power back on in Jackson CountyFree Access


Power has been restored to all of Jackson County.
All Federated Rural Electric members had electricity by Sunday afternoon, four days after outages began occurring in the wake of last week’s ice storm. At the peak of the outages, 2,700 Federated members in Jackson and Cottonwood counties — 40 percent of total membership — were without power.
“I especially want to thank our Federated members for their patience,” said Scott Reimer, Federated’s general manager. “Next, thank you employees for your long days and hard work. We appreciate the 56 linemen who traveled up to four hours and worked diligently for us. Line crews commented how nice Federated members were in offering them food in the field. In addition, we are amazed by the generosity of businesses and organizations who offered or donated food, by the restaurants who provided meals for the crews on short notice and yes, our farmers, who helped pull line trucks out of the wet, muddy fields and ditches. What a team effort.”
Federated serves 6,700 members in Jackson and Martin counties.

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