MOREHEAD, Ky. — Tens of thousands of homes are still without power across the Commonwealth but the hardest hit area is Eastern Kentucky Unfortunately it’ll be days before some customers are back online. 

“Even on a good day it’s tough to service some of these areas,” Joe Arnold told Spectrum News 1. Arnold is with the Kentucky Electric Cooperatives and says half of the utility infrastructure in far eastern Kentucky is not accessible by roads. 

“This is the toughest terrain topographically in Kentucky. It is hills and mountains and streams and ravines,” Arnold explains.

The Kentucky Electric Cooperatives has brought in hundreds of additional line technicians and contractors from other states to help repair power lines but with another winter storm on the way, thousands of homes will remain without power.

“You have to take an ATV, you have to hike, you have to take other ways to access it. Now imagine doing all of that in a couple of inches of ice and snow on top of that,” Arnold said.

Progress has been made. Since early Tuesday electricity has been restored for more than 40,000 customers statewide. As of Wednesday 60,000 are still in the dark.