Roughly 1,800 Santee Cooper customers were reported without power due to a thunderstorm on Wednesday afternoon.
A thunderstorm with powerful lightning rolled through the Grand Strand mid-day on Wednesday, leading to heavy rain and plentiful power outages. Santee Cooper outage maps showed about 1,800 customers experiencing outages around the Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach areas.
The largest outage impacted roughly 1,260 customers near the Myrtle Beach Airport, according to Santee Cooper’s website. Restoration of that section is expected to begin at 3 p.m…