Parkway Village residents still without power after storms

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27-05-2025

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Cleanup continues in sections of Parkway Village after a strong storm brought trees down and knocked out power for a number of MLGW customers.
WREG has been told that power has been restored to most everyone impacted by the outage.
However, some may have to wait a bit longer if a device on their home called a 'weather head or weather cap' is damaged.
It's still a steady rainfall in Parkway Village as folks try to get their lives back to normal following Sunday's storm.
Crews work to clear debris from Sunday's storm
It's been frustrating for those with severe damage to their homes and those still left without power.
'We were just in the house and all of a sudden a wind came through,' Mable Pride said. 'The trees were bending and everything falling, and I was like, 'What's going on?'
Pride was sitting in the middle of a proverbial 'Ground Zero' during Sunday's storm that caused damage to homes on several streets in Parkway Village, including trees coming down and power being knocked out.
'I was so busy looking at all this, I didn't really hear the branch when it hit our house,' she said. 'It didn't do no real damage except it knocked a wire down in the back.'
However, the problem is that the wire is running into a fixture on Pride's roof called a 'weather head or weather cap', a device that protects the point where overhead wires enter a home or building.
Pride's power went out, so she called MLGW.
'[Memphis] Light, Gas and Water been out twice and they've told us we got to get the connection to our house fixed,' she said.
MLGW is responsible for repairing electrical wires leading to your home or building, not repairing or replacing a 'weather head or weather cap.'
That must be done by a licensed electrician and inspected by Code Enforcement before power can be restored by MLGW.
Trees uprooted in Parkway Village neighborhood
'That's why we've got to get an electrician before our power can get back on,' Pride said. 'This is a holiday. So, how are we going to do that? But, we're going to have to work on it.'
She told WREG that Sunday's storm was the most violent she's been through in a while.
'Every time it rained, we used to have a blackout, but they came out here and fixed up stuff. So, we stopped having blackouts,' Pride said. 'This is the only one we've had in the last couple of years or so.'
MLGW stresses to residents that they should never attempt to make electrical repairs to their home, especially if the damage involves downed power lines.
Any downed power lines should be treated as 'live' and considered dangerous to touch.
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