Power outages top 1 million a day after hurricane is downgraded

Published October 13, 2018 12:24am ET



The number of power outages on Friday remains greater than 1 million a day after Hurricane Michael was downgraded to a tropical storm, according to federal and utility industry reports.

As of Friday evening, 1.06 million electricity customers were without power in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, according to Tom Kuhn, president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, a large industry group working with the federal government to restore service.

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