By Scott DiSavino
NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) – Over 396,000 homes and businesses were without power on Friday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The hardest-hit state was Ohio, with around 123,000 outages, representing about 2.3% of the state’s roughly 5.4 million customers, according to the data.
The hardest-hit utility in Ohio was a unit of American Electric Power, with around 40,000 homes and businesses in the state without service. AEP provides service to around 1.5 million electric customers in Ohio, the data showed.
Here are the major outages by state:
State Outages
Ohio 123,300
Wisconsin 81,100
Michigan 75,100
Indiana 73,700
Illinois 30,700
Pennsylvania 12,600
Total Out 396,500
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Ethan Smith)
