Dive Summary:
- Over 120,000 utility customers were without power on Friday morning after snow and rainstorms struck the Eastern side of the U.S. over the past few days.
- The most affected states on Friday were New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan; states still without power from Thursday storms were Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
- Utilities with the most power outages were FirstEnergy (26,500 in New Jersey), Commonwealth Edison (12,900 in Illinois), AEP Indiana Michigan Power (12,600 in Indiana and Michigan), Ameren Illinois (11,600 in Illinois) and AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company (8,700 in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas; down from 57,400).
From the article:
"More than 120,000 homes and businesses were without power Friday morning after a series of snow and rain storms battered the Eastern half of the United States over the past few days, power companies said.
The hardest hit states this morning were New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, but outages remained in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas from storms on Thursday. ..."