Almost 1.3 million homes and businesses were still without power in the US Southeast and Midwest on Wednesday 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 1.7 million on Tuesday as utilities continued to restore power. The storm knocked out service to around 5.5 million customers, predominantly in the Southeast.
Helene’s winds, rain, and storm surge killed more than 160 people.
The utility with the most outages was US energy company Duke Energy in the Carolinas with about 323,000 customers still out in South Carolina and 299,000 still out in North Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us.
Duke said it had restored power to around 1.6 million customers in the Carolinas on Tuesday and expected to restore most remaining outages by Friday night.
