Oct 12 (Reuters) – More than 149,000 homes and businesses in Florida were without power on Monday after Hurricane Isaias swept through the U.S. Southeast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday as a Category 2 storm before weakening to a post-tropical cyclone later in the week. The storm brought damaging winds, heavy rain, flash flooding and tornado threats across parts of the U.S. Southeast, leaving four people dead.
Florida Power & Light reported 112,021 customers without power, accounting for the bulk of outages across the state, according to PowerOutage.us.
Escambia County was the hardest hit, with 67,573 customers without power, followed by Santa Rosa County with 47,443 customers and Walton County with 17,218 customers, according to PowerOutage.us.
Here are the major outages by state:
State Outages
Florida 149,345
Alabama 21,544
California 18,861
Pennsylvania 9,108
North Carolina 4,745
South Carolina 3,040
Virginia 2,763
Texas 2,603
Total Out 212,009
(Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee in BengaluruEditing by Nick Zieminski)
