Roughly 1.5 million homes and businesses were without power in the eastern half of the United States and Texas on Friday as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
A man wades through flood waters to attempt to retrieve his truck during a winter storm along the Hudson River in Piermont, New York, U.S., December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Dec 23 - Roughly 1.5 million homes and businesses were without power in the eastern half of the United States and Texas on Friday as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data fromU.S. utilities were working to restore power after the storms moved on from their service territories but some were still dealing with high winds.
Most outages were in North Carolina, with over 175,000 customers without power, followed by Virginia, Maine, Tennessee, and New York. Nearly half of the 50 U.S. states counted more than 10,000 customers with outages due to the storms. During the holiday weekend, theis expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes region, heavy rains followed by a flash freeze on the East Coast, wind gusts of 60 miles per hour and bitter cold as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border.with over 158,000 customers without power in North and South Carolina.
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