Another group of Kansas City Power and Light employees are headed east to help assist the power restorations efforts after Hurricane Sandy left more than eight million Americans without electricity.
KCP&L sent another 60 employee’s Tuesday after more than 90 employee’s left over the weekend and on Monday.
Specifically, more than 75 workers were assigned to the Stamford Connecticut area and 15 underground specialist were assigned to New York City. Roughly 60 more workers were sent to New Haven Connecticut Tuesday.
“While we don’t know what damage this storm will cause we do know that millions of customers in that area are being encouraged to prepare for the possibility of extended outages,” said Duane Anstaett, KCP&L vice president of Delivery. “Our crews will work diligently to restore power to those customers as quickly and safely as possible.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 8.2 million people across the east coast were without power. New York City was especially hard hit, its subways shut down and much of Manhattan left without power.
The aftermath of the storm left at least 39 people dead across the eastern seaboard. The storm is estimated to have a $20 billion, or more, impact.