Dive Summary:
- Nearly 500,000 homes and businesses, mostly in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic states, are without power Friday after severe storms struck on Thursday.
- Customers of Duke Energy Corp., the biggest power company in the United States, were hit hardest. More than 240,000 customers in the Carolinas are blacked out as of Friday morning.
- Late Thursday, Duke said more than 350,000 customers, mostly in North Carolina, were without power. Duke warned those in the hardest hit areas to prepare for a "multi-day" outage.
Here's a list of utilities and their estimated power outages as of 8:36 am:
- Duke Progress Carolinas (N.C., S.C.) — 152,000
- Dominion Dominion (Va., N.C.) — 92,200
- Duke Carolinas (N.C., S.C.) — 89,200
- American Electric Power Appalachian (Va., W.Va., Tenn.) — 74,800
- Georgia Power (Ga.) — 60,000
- American Electric Power Indiana Michigan (Mich.) — 10,800
- FirstEnergy (W.Va.) — 4,500
- American Electric Power Ohio (OH, W.Va.) — 3,700
- Pepco (D.C., Md.) — 3,200
- BGE (Md.) — 1,800