Jan 26 (Reuters) - A severe winter storm that brought heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain left more than 823,000 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 172,000 of 463,455 customers were without power, and Entergy, with more than 142,000 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 248,401
Mississippi 157,516
Louisiana 123,929
Texas 58,754
Kentucky 50,228
South Carolina 43,441
Georgia 37,609
North Carolina 29,248
Total Out 823,162
(Reporting by Sarah Qureshi and Noel John in Bengaluru; Editing by Kate Mayberry and Bernadette Baum)
