The Mayor of Columbia, Dominion Energy Officials Give Update on Power, Storm Response

According to WTLX News: Power outages in South Carolina have dropped but there is much more work to be done to restore power in South Carolina.  As of Sunday night were a little over 818,000 outages in South Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that collects data from multiple utility websites. At it’s peak Friday morning, there were almost 1.4 million, which meant over 40 percent of the state had no electricity. The outages were the highest of any state affected by Hurricane Helene, including Florida, where the storm made landfall, and Georgia, where it moved next. There is some context to those numbers: much of the area Helene tore through in those states is very rural. In South Carolina, however, it knocked out virtually all the power in the densely populated counties of Greenville and Spartanburg, as well as significant outages in the areas around the capitol of Columbia, including Richland and Lexington Counties.

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