(Reuters) – 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 .
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.
Here are the major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Provi Out Now Customers Served
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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 323,814
(Reporting by Seher Dareen and Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru and Scott DiSavino in New York; editing by Jason Neely)
