Corrects lead paragraph to Monday, not Friday
March 16 (Reuters) - More than 500,000 homes and businesses were without power on Monday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Michigan was hardest hit with around 125,000 outages, representing about 2.5% of the state's 5.1 million customers, according to the data.
The most severely impacted utility in Michigan was a unit of Consumers Energy with around 88,273 homes and businesses without service, followed by Alpena Power Company, with around 11,945.
Here are the major outages by state:
STATE | OUTAGES |
Michigan | 125,236 |
Ohio | 58,212 |
Georgia | 53,526 |
Alabama | 28,716 |
Mississippi | 28,520 |
Pennsylvania | 26,305 |
Texas | 23,906 |
Kentucky | 23,533 |
TOTAL OUT | 535,802 |
(Reporting by Anjana Anil in BengaluruEditing by Bernadette Baum)
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