(Reuters) – More than a million homes and businesses were without power on the U.S. East Coast, Midwest and Texas on Friday as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data from .
Most outages were in North Carolina, with over 164,000 customers without power, followed by Virginia with over 92,000 and Connecticut with more than 89,000.
More than a dozen other states east of the Mississippi River plus Oregon, Washington state, Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas west of the Mississippi River each have more than 10,000 customers facing outages due to winter storms.
Leading into the holiday weekend, the storm is expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes region, heavy rains followed by a flash freeze on the East Coast, wind gusts of 60 miles per hour (100 km per hour) and bitter cold as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border.
Georgia joined North Carolina and Kentucky this week in declaring states of emergency. Temperatures in northern Georgia were forecast to hit just 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius) with subzero wind chills.
The utility with the most outages was Duke Energy Corp with over 100,000 customers without power.
Here are the major outages by utility:
State / Provinces Out Now
North Carolina 165,654
Virginia 92,297
Connecticut 89,995
Texas 82,670
New York 72,944
Pennsylvania 69,806
Vermont 68,909
New Hampshire 66,778
South Carolina 65,044
Ohio 61,738
Massachusetts 54,210
Maine 52,092
Georgia 52,077
Tennessee 41,797
1,036,011
(Reporting by Seher Dareen, Brijesh Patel and Rahul Paswan in Bengaluru, Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by Jason Neely and Jonathan Oatis)