March 16 (Reuters) – More than 266,000 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 123,765 outages, representing about 2.4% 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 90,716 homes and businesses without service.
Here are the major outages by state:
Michigan 123,765
Ohio 29991
Florida 25909
Pennsylvania 21811
New York 21732
Hawaii 16450
Wisconsin 14720
Mississippi 12447
Total 266,825
(Reporting by Anjana Anil in BengaluruEditing by Bernadette Baum and Will Dunham)
