Arkansas
South Arkansas storms left thousands in the dark
CLARK COUNTY, Ark. — Highly effective Friday evening storms left many in south Arkansas with out energy. Greater than 18-thousand houses and companies have been at the hours of darkness, and lots of roads and houses have been left coated in storm injury.
Shelley Tucker, the general public relations and communications consultant for South Central Arkansas Electrical Cooperative Inc. lives in Curtis the place she mentioned the injury is unquestioned however the way it occurred remains to be a thriller.
Tucker mentioned, “No person nonetheless is aware of if it was tornadoes or straight-line winds or what however there have been a number of a number of bushes down, blocking roads, energy strains tangled, it was fairly loopy to see. “
By Saturday evening just one county was nonetheless seeing important outages. Ashley County reported greater than 700 outages from its 8,800 houses and companies.