More than 300,000 homes and businesses were without power on the U.S. East Coast and Texas on Friday as winter storms batter much of the country, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Georgia has more than 100,000 customers without power, Connecticut more than 70,000 and Texas some 67,000.
More than a dozen other states east of the Mississippi River plus Oregon, Missouri and Louisiana each have more than 10,000 customers facing outages due to winter storms.
Leading into the holiday weekend, the impending storm is expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes region, heavy rains followed by a flash freeze on the East Coast, wind gusts of 60 miles per hour (100 kph) and bitter cold as far south as the Mexican border.
Georgia joined North Carolina and Kentucky this week in declaring states of emergency. Temperatures in north Georgia were forecast to hit just 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius) with subzero wind chills.
The utility with the most outages was Georgia Power with over 80,000 customers without power. Georgia Power is a unit of U.S. energy company Southern Co (SO.N).
Here are the major outages by utility:
Power Company
State/Province
Out Now
Customers Served
Southern – Georgia Power
GA
81,415
2,637,681
EverSource
CT
78,438
1,295,134
Duke Energy
NC
30,141
3,666,438
Duke Energy
SC
25,334
829,503
EverSource
NH
28,000
544,929
Avangrid – New York State Electric and Gas
NY
18,872
908,662
Entergy
TX
18,398
489,014
CenterPoint Energy
TX
17,744
2,615,781
Oncor
TX
15,497
3,890,667
American Electric Power Texas
TX
9,975
1,074,142
Total Out
323,81
— Reuters
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