March 16 (Reuters) – More than 536,000 homes and businesses were without power on Tuesday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Pennsylvania was the hardest hit, with about 125,000 outages – roughly 1.9% of the state’s 6.8 million customers, according to the data. The most severely […]
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March 16 (Reuters) – More than 536,000 homes and businesses were without power on Tuesday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Pennsylvania was the hardest hit, with about 125,000 outages – roughly 1.9% of the state’s 6.8 million customers, according to the data.
The most severely impacted utility was a unit of Consumers Energy in Michigan, where around 92,770 homes and businesses were without service.
“Six hundred crews are hard at work and will continue through the night to ensure all communities we serve get back online,” Consumers Energy said in a post on X.
Here are the major outages by state:
State Outages
Pennsylvania 124,999
Michigan 106,712
Virginia 84,301
New Jersey
61,487
Maryland 24,858
New York 19,728
Ohio 16,228
North Carolina 15,064
Total
536,972
(Reporting by Anjana Anil and Noel John in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Will Dunham and Sumana Nandy)