(Reuters) – Over 559,000 homes and businesses in Texas, Kentucky and other 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 long Memorial Day weekend.
Texas power company Oncor, a unit of California-based energy company Sempra Energy, has the most outages with around 319,000 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 wind gusts as high as 95 miles per hour (153 kms per hour) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and surrounding areas.
“The damages caused to our facilities is extensive and restoration will likely take multiple days,” Oncor added on its website.
Major outages by state:
State Outages
Texas 506,109
Kentucky 28,449
Arkansas 12,632
Missouri 5,383
Indiana 7,198
Total Out 559,771
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino, Sherin Elizabeth Varghese and Anmol Choubey; Editing by Aurora Ellis, Christopher Cushing and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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