(WSPA) — More than 3,300 Duke Energy and Broad River Electric customers are without power across the Upstate and western North Carolina on Tuesday night.
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According to the company, the majority of outage are concentrated in the Upstate, with 2,422 customers impacted and 598 affected in western North Carolina.
Upstate outages
Greenville County reported the highest number of outages with 1,391 customers without power, followed by Spartanburg County with 345.
Broad River Electric reported that hundreds are without power in Union County.
Other counties’ experiencing outages include
- Anderson – 4 customers
- Cherokee – 233 customers
- Laurens – 7 customers
- Oconee – 130 customers
- Union – 404 customers
Western North Carolina
Counties across the region experiencing outages:
- Buncombe – 587 customers
- Haywood – 6 customers
- Henderson – 4 customers
- McDowell – 42 customers
- Polk – 1 customer
- Rutherford – 63 customers
- Transylvania – 120 customers
The outages followed rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms that moved through the region…