Dive Summary:
- Over Wednesday night and Thursday morning, thunderstorms knocked out power for over 330,000 homes and businesses in the Northeast.
- While thunderstorms hit the East coast from Louisiana to New York, the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for the Southeast.
- The following list contains the ten utilities with the most power outages, which state the outages took place in and the number of outages remaining:
- Northeast Utilities (CT) — 70,800
- LIPA (NY) — 34,100
- FirstEnergy (NJ) — 26,700
- National Grid (MA) — 25,300
- Central Maine (ME) — 24,500
- National Grid (RI) — 24,300
- Dominion (VA, NC) — 15,000
- FirstEnergy (PA) — 13,100
- United Illuminating (CT) — 13,000
- NYSEG (NY) — 11,000
From the article:
"... Over 330,000 homes and businesses were without power mostly in the U.S. Northeast Thursday morning after thunderstorms marched across the region, power companies said.
On Wednesday, the thunderstorms moved from West to East and stretched from Louisiana to New York. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches across the Southeast. ..."