Monday Night Press Release:
A tree has just fallen on a house in the Cashiers area. The tree has also fallen onto a main Duke transmission line serving Highlands. Tomorrow morning at 9 am Duke will cut power service to Highlands to remove the tree and repair their main transmission line. The outage will be for several hours and power should be restored to Highlands around 1 pm. All of the Town of Highlands will loose power during this period.
I am asking the media, chamber and website operators to get the word out to Highlands residents and businesses without delay.
Our staff at town hall will man the phones to let folks know. May be the county emergency services can send a code red warning before the outage.