Nearly four million power outages were recorded during early Saturday in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Millions of Americans have been left without power following Hurricane Helene’s deadly assault on the Eastern U.S.
South Carolina was the worst-affected state, with 1,089,535 outages recorded as of early Saturday, according to PowerOutage.us, a service that tracks disruptions. In South Carolina’s Greenville County alone, 258,688 outages were recorded.
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on Thursday as a powerful category 4 storm. Forecasters warned of “a catastrophic and deadly storm surge.” It was the strongest hurricane on record to landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, The Weather Channel reported.
Some 787,428 outages were recorded in Georgia, 728,427 in North Carolina, 527,945 in Florida, 224,841 in Ohio, and 141,407 in Kentucky. There were an additional 72,962 in Indiana, 70,991 in West Virginia, and 62,091 in Tennessee, for a combined total of 3,705,627.
