NORTH CAROLINA — Scattered power outages have been reported across North Carolina Friday evening, leaving more than 1,600 homes and businesses without electricity statewide.
As of Friday evening, 1,669 customers are without power, accounting for approximately 0.03% of the 5,868,758 electric customers tracked across the state. The outage data was last updated about three minutes prior to release.
North Carolina ranked eighth nationwide for the total number of power outages and seventh for the percentage of customers affected…