Many of the Cooperative s lines are old with small conductors that are susceptible to breaking during ice storms and high winds. The line serves as a back-up source of power to an additional 600 consumers.
Several consumers rely on electrical service to deal with their medical conditions.
There are also numerous livestock confinement operations that rely on electrical service for ventilation, watering, and feed movement. Extended outages pose the potential of significant losses in production and animals. Since the rebuilding of this particular line there have been no outages due to ice storms or high winds. To date it has weathered the test of storms.