More Than 196,000 Still Without Power in Texas and Arkansas After Storms
That is down from more than 275,000 outages on Wednesday and a peak of over 939,000 outages in several states from Texas to Kentucky on Tuesday.
Tornado-spawning thunderstorms that swept the Southern Plains and the Ozark Mountains killed at least 21 across four U.S. states over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Related: Texas Storm Leaves Thousands of Homes Without Power: Weather Watch
Texas power company Oncor, a unit of California-based Sempra Energy, had the most outages with over 148,000 customers without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to PowerOutage.us.
Oncor said it had already restored power to over 480,000 customers and estimated “restoration will be substantially complete by Friday evening, weather permitting.”
“Harder-hit areas are expected to be restored Saturday,” Oncor said in a statement.
Major outages by state:
(Reporting by DiSavino, Varghese, Choubey, Mukherjee and Anil; Editing by Sohini Goswami and Bernadette Baum)
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