Funviralpark Dec 23 (Reuters) – More than 1 million homes and businesses were without power on Friday across the U.S. East Coast, Midwest and Texas as winter storms swept through much of the country, according to PowerOutage.us data. .
Most outages were in North Carolina with over 164,000 customers, followed by Virginia with over 92,000 and Connecticut with over 89,000.
In addition to a dozen states east of the Mississippi, more than 10,000 customers each faced power outages due to winter storms in Oregon, Washington, and west of the Mississippi in Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas. I’m here.
Heading into the holiday weekend, the storm is expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes region, with heavy rains followed by rapid freezing of the East Coast, gusts of up to 60 miles per hour (100 km/h), and extreme cold in the distance. will be To the south is the border between the United States and Mexico.
Georgia followed North Carolina and Kentucky in declaring a state of emergency this week. Temperatures in northern Georgia were forecast to reach 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 degrees Celsius) with sub-zero wind chill.
The power company with the most blackouts was Duke Energy (DUK.N), which has lost power to more than 100,000 customers.
Major outages by utility include:
Reporting by Seher Dareen, Brijesh Patel and Rahul Paswan from Bangalore and Scott DiSavino from New York.Edited by Jason Neely and Jonathan Ortiz
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