Jan 26 (Reuters) – A severe winter storm that brought heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain left more than 780,000 homes and businesses without power early on Monday across a swath of the U.S., from the Ohio Valley and mid-South to New England.
The hardest-hit utilities included Nashville Electric Service (NES) in Tennessee, where 175,034 of 463,455 customers were without power, and Entergy, with more than 144,845 of 3.05 million U.S. customers affected, according to PowerOutage.us.
“NES lineworkers will continue overnight and we will not stop until power is back on for all customers,” Nashville Electric Service said in a post on X.
North Carolina accounted for much of the outages for Duke Energy, according to PowerOutage.us. Duke Energy had expected customer outages to increase through late Sunday.
Here are the major outages by state:
State Outages
Tennessee 247,367
Mississippi 154,982
Louisiana 123,081
Texas 58,990
Kentucky 43,996
South Carolina 38,976
Georgia 27,411
North Carolina 22,166
Total Out 780,814
(Reporting by Sarah Qureshi, Noel John and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru; Editing by Kate Mayberry and Bernadette Baum)
