(Reuters) – Greater than 97,000 houses and companies in Georgia and North Carolina had been nonetheless with out energy on Wednesday within the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in line with knowledge from PowerOutage.us, as Florida braces for Hurricane Milton.
Helene hit the Florida Panhandle on Sept. 26.
Milton is anticipated to stay a particularly harmful main hurricane when it reaches the west-central coast of Florida on Wednesday night time, and stay at hurricane power whereas it strikes throughout the Florida peninsula by means of Thursday, the U.S. Nationwide Hurricane Middle mentioned in its newest advisory.
U.S. vitality firm Duke Vitality (NYSE:), a significant provider within the Carolinas, had probably the most outages final week, in line with PowerOutage.us.
The corporate mentioned it has restored 2.6 million buyer outages in South and North Carolina since Helene hit
Helene, which killed greater than 200 individuals throughout six states, was the deadliest named storm to hit the mainland U.S. since Hurricane Katrina killed almost 1,400 individuals in 2005.
Listed below are the main outages by state:
State Outages
Georgia 48,869
North Carolina 31,941
Florida 16,871
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