With Thanksgiving to be accompanied by a fast approaching cold front, electric companies plan to work into the night Wednesday to restore power to the remaining Butler County residents who are still without power after last week's winter storm.

Power outages persist, according to online information, with more than 200 customers with Central Electric Cooperative and West Penn Power who still do not have access to electricity. The majority of those customers are with the cooperative.

“We're experiencing a great number of damaged poles that have to be replaced,” Maleski said. “And that's very time consuming.”

And with the holiday tomorrow, Maleski hopes to get most of the restoration work done before Thursday.

“We've got two things in our minds, we want to restore power for people's Thanksgivings and to get our crews back with their families,” he said.

A possible snow storm expected Wednesday afternoon also might be a problem, according to Ken Maleski, a spokesman with Central Electric. He said crews want to try and get the job down before the snow arrives.

“That's what's driving us right now,” Maleski said.

Power outages began on Nov. 15 when a freezing rainstorm hit the area, according to meteorologists.

On Monday night, Central Electric Cooperative had reported 1,780 powerless customers, while an estimated 2,659 West Penn Power customers were still affected.