Enfield power restored after four-day outage during intense heat

Power in Enfield is back on for all after some residents and businesses were without power for four days.

On Tuesday, Mayor Mondale Robinson announced the power in the town had been restored. This comes just one day after he declared a state of emergency in the town due to widespread outages caused by storms on Saturday.

Residents have been without air conditioning for days as the heat index has been in triple digits since the storms initially rolled through.

Robinson told WRAL News the restoration was a temporary fix that “would last for quite some time but resting on it is not what we plan on because we need proper and competent distribution of electricity.”

“We know that the lights are back on, [but] we are not out of the woods,” Robinson said in a post on Facebook. “We still have neighbors that need our assistance.”

Robinson said the town is still working to help take care of people any way they can. 

“We still have neighbors that had to throw away all of their grocery, we still have people that don’t have water, we still have that have medication that may need to be refrigerated until everything is powered back up.”

Robinson said food and water will still be provided on Tuesday and Wednesday at Enfield Middle School. Community members have also pitched in to provide meals throughout the community.