More than 1M customers in SC remain without power in wake of Hurricane Helene
South Carolinians continue to feel the effects of Hurricane Helene as more than 1 million customers remained without power Saturday afternoon.
The storm made landfall in Florida late Thursday night as a category 3 hurricane, and then traveled inland into Georgia and North and South Carolina. Helene was listed as a tropical storm as of 6 a.m. Friday morning, //but the damage she left in her wake classified her as one of the strongest storms on record. The National Weather Service in Columbia clocked winds at 67 mph at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport at 6:12 a.m.
As of 4 p.m. Saturday, there were 1,021,870 customers without power across South Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us. The outages were widespread, but the Upstate and the Midlands were the most-impacted areas.
More than 46,000 customers were without power in Richland County as of 4 p.m., while Lexington County still had nearly 54,000 outages, an improvement since Friday afternoon.
In Newberry, Greenwood and Saluda counties, northwest of Columbia, all but a thousand customers in each county were still without power Saturday afternoon, the website reported.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
This story was originally published September 28, 2024 at 9:00 AM.
