A winter storm has knocked out electricity for about 17,000 Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia.
The utility’s website shows most of the outages are in southern West Virginia. As of 8:25 a.m. Monday, there are 7,900 outages in Mercer County and more than 3,500 in Raleigh County.
Smaller outages have occurred in Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Summers and Wyoming counties.
Mon Power reports scattered outages in northern West Virginia.