VEC power crews battled zero temperature and icy conditions early yesterday morning to restore power to just over 10,300 customers at one point in Cumberland County.

The outage started around 3 a.m. yesterday with a main transmission line failure.

Crews brought in a 105 foot tall bucket to work on the line supplying power to the Lantana substation. Officials say the wind chill of -5 degrees made repairs difficult.

At 6:40 a.m., the number of customers out dropped to 7,800.

At 8:30 a.m., the number jumped back up to 10,300 as crews completed repairs and started to restore power slowly to not overload the lines.

At 9:05 a.m., power was restored to all but around 50 scattered customers.