By Ron Allen

As of Tuesday evening, February 23, close to one thousand Putnam residents were without electric power. Most of the thousand lost power on Wednesday, February 10, when an ice storm knocked out service to more than 8,000 in the county.

Appalachian Power managed to restore the electric to all except 1,200 customers when a second storm caused outages to soar to well above 16,000 on Monday, February 15. At one point on…