COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Matt Long with Dominion Energy says the number one cause of outages during a winter storm will be trees or limbs, weighed down by ice or snow, falling onto power lines.
Crews help prepare year-round to prevent this.
“And so a lot of the work we do year round to prepare for storms like this is to trim back that vegetation on sunny days to help reduce the risk of that happening when a storm does hit,” says Long…