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Kentucky telcos show resilience in the face of a storm.
Keith Gabbard, general manager of Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative (McKee, Ky.) called it the "perfect storm." Over a 40-hour period, much of Kentucky received rain, snow or ice, followed by two days of continuous rain--all while temperatures hovered around 31-33 degrees.
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When the ice storm officially hit on January 27, it blanketed the state with a quarter-inch of ice that proved devastating. The Federal Emergency Management Agency described it as "the worst natural disaster in modern Kentucky history."
A reported 36 lives were lost. Hundreds were left stranded with no food, water or shelter. Nearly 700,000 residents lost power--some for several weeks. The weight of the ice downed power lines and snapped trees, which shutdown roads, toppled onto homes ...
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