(Reuters) – Over 1.9 million homes and businesses in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and other U.S. Southeastern and Midwestern states were still without power on Monday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on Sept. 26, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Those outages were down from around 2.1 million earlier in the day as utilities continue to restore power. In total, the storm knocked out service to around 5.5 million customers.
Helene’s winds, rain and storm surge killed over 100 people, according to a Reuters tally of state and local officials.
U.S. energy company Duke Energy had the most power outages in the Carolinas with about 453,000 customers still out in South Carolina and 312,000 out in North Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us.
Duke said on Sunday it restored power to more than 1.1 million customers in the Carolinas and expected to restore service to most customers by Friday.
Duke’s storm director for the Carolinas, Jason Hollifield, however, noted “There are lots of areas across the South Carolina Upstate and North Carolina mountains where we’re going to have to completely rebuild parts of our system, not just repair it.”
Here are the major outages by state:
State Outages
South Carolina 721,000
Georgia 558,000
North Carolina 415,000
Florida 110,000
Virginia 93,000
Ohio 24,000
West Virginia 22,000
Kentucky 15,000
Tennessee 10,000
Total Out 1,968,000
(Reporting by Rahul Paswan and Swati Verma in Bengaluru and Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by Sharon Singleton and Chizu Nomiyama)
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