NEW YORK (Reuters) – Over 396,000 homes and businesses were without power on Friday as severe storms battered the US Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The hardest-hit state was Ohio, with around 123,000 outages, representing about 2.3% of the state’s roughly 5.4 million customers, according to the data.
The hardest-hit utility in Ohio was a unit of American Electric Power with around 40,000 homes and businesses in the state without service. AEP provides service to around 1.5 million electric customers in Ohio, the data showed.
