(Reuters) – More than 455,000 homes and businesses in Texas, Kentucky and other U.S. states were without power on Wednesday as storms continued to batter the region since the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, according to meteorologists and data from PowerOutage.us.
That is down from more than 939,000 customer outages on Tuesday.
Tornado-spawning thunderstorms that swept the Southern Plains and the Ozark Mountains killed at least 21 people across four U.S. states over the holiday weekend.
Texas power company Oncor, a unit of California-based Sempra Energy, has the most outages with some 262,203 customers without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to PowerOutage.us.
Oncor said it was assessing damages, making repairs and restoring outages caused by storms producing hail, rain and destructive winds, including gusts as high as 95 miles per hour (153 kilometers per hour) in Dallas-Fort Worth and surrounding areas.
“The damages caused to our facilities is extensive and restoration will likely take multiple days,” Oncor said on its website.
Major outages by state:
Outages
State
379,553
Texas
23,335
Arkansas
23,121
Kentucky
15,154
California
14,794
Wisconsin
455,957
Total Out
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino, Sherin Elizabeth Varghese, Anmol Choubey and Anushree Mukherjee; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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