Evansville - Federal and state inspectors plan to visit 15 southern Indiana counties in the coming days to check on damage from last month's ice storm.
The inspection reports will help determine whether the area might receive federal disaster assistance from the Jan. 28 storm.
The Indiana Department of Homeland Security says inspection teams are starting work Monday in Crawford, Perry, Switzerland, Vanderburgh and Washington counties. Others that will be visited are Clark, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Orange, Spencer and Warrick counties.
More than 100,000 homes and businesses in counties lost along the Ohio River lost electricity for days after power lines buckled under up to three-quarters of an inch of ice.
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