Over One Million Homes Without Power Due To Storm

Reuters reports:

More than a million homes and businesses were without power on the U.S. East Coast, Midwest and Texas on Friday as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Most outages were in North Carolina, with over 164,000 customers without power, followed by Virginia with over 92,000 and Connecticut with more than 89,000. The utility with the most outages was Duke Energy.

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TVA has issued a Step 50 Curtailment which means that all local power companies are required to drop between 5 and 10 percent of their total electrical load. This is necessary to avoid major outages across the #MLGW and other local power companies service areas. #MLGWNews pic.twitter.com/fxIpp0MJUY

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Some power outage reports as of 10 a.m. EST:
• North Carolina – 163,000 outages
• Texas – 78,000
• South Carolina – 74,000
• Georgia – 59,000
• Connecticut – 97,000
• Ohio and Pennsylvania – 58,000

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