DoomsdaysCWPower Outages Top 500,000 As Severe Weather Batters Several States
Story by Jan Wesner Childs, August 7, 2023
"More than 500,000 homes and businesses were without power across five states as severe storms packing damaging winds and hail battered the South and moved east.
"Downed trees and roof damage were reported in several areas, including parts of #Tennessee and #Mississippi.
"Hail crashed down in several areas, including around #Huntington, #WestVirginia.
"Top power outage numbers as of about 6:15 p.m. eastern time, according to PowerOutage.us: more than 130,000 in #NorthCarolina; about 120,000 in #Georgia; more than 100,000 in #Maryland; about 97,000 in #Tennessee; and 73,000 in #Virginia.
"The severe weather was part of an outbreak of severe storms in the East and South expected to produce widespread damaging wind gusts, hail, flooding rainfall and isolated tornadoes.
"Areas likely to be most affected were northern Alabama, northern and central Georgia and much of South Carolina northward to the mid-Atlantic. Cities include #Atlanta, #Baltimore, #Charlotte, #Philadelphia and #WashingtonDC."