More than 880,000 customers were without electricity across the Midwest on Tuesday as severe storms swept through parts of the Midwest, triggering tornado warnings and reports of destructive winds.
According to PowerOutage.us, 880,232 customers were without power nationwide as of Tuesday afternoon, with Illinois, Indiana and Ohio accounting for the vast majority of outages.
The outages came as a powerful line of storms moved across the Great Lakes region, prompting tornado warnings and concerns about damaging winds capable of downing trees and power lines. The severe weather disrupted electricity service for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and raised concerns about additional infrastructure damage as storms continued eastward. Illinois reported 293,952 customers without power, followed by Indiana with 291,643 and Ohio with 178,820…