More than 1.3 million South Carolina businesses and households were without power at one point during the storm, according to PowerOutage.US. It could take until the middle of next week for power to be fully restored across the state, said officials from Dominion Energy, Duke Energy and Santee Cooper. A final timeline for the work remained unclear, as crews had only just begun to make assessments of damage at noon Sept. 27.
Of those outages, about half were in six Upstate counties, including all 12,000 residents of Fountain Inn.
SC Dominion Energy President Keller Kissam compared the widespread outages to those caused by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
“Life is not gonna be back to normal until probably the middle of next week from a power standpoint, just because of the sheer damage that we have,” Kissam said.
At least 13 people have died across South Carolina due to Tropical Storm Helene. Here's what we know about the storm's impact in the state.https://t.co/IvuVWYNF2z
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) September 27, 2024
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