Aug 7 (Reuters) - More than 1.2 million homes and businesses from
Pennsylvania to Massachusetts were still without power early Friday after
Hurricane Isaias crashed up the U.S. East Coast earlier this week, according to
local electric companies.
That is down from over 1.8 million early Thursday. In total, the storm
knocked out service to more than 4.3 million customers from North Carolina to
Quebec after crashing into the North Carolina coast Monday night. The storms
remnants were last seen in Quebec on Wednesday.
Isaias was the earliest ninth storm of the Atlantic season. The U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday boosted its prediction
on the number of named tropical storms this year, saying there could be up to 16
more for a total of 25. The current record for named tropical storms in a season
is 27 in 2005, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
The following table lists major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Prov Out Now Served
ince
Eversource - Connecticut CT 413,600 1,281,200
FirstEnergy - New Jersey NJ 224,600 1,131,700
PSEG Long Island NY 197,400 1,162,300
Consolidated Edison NY 127,800 3,535,400
PSEG New Jersey NJ 87,900 2,326,700
Avangrid - United Illuminating CT 56,500 337,400
Avangrid - NYSEG NY 38,400 902,300
Con Edison - Orange and Rockland NY, NJ 38,100 301,900
Fortis Central Hudson NY 12,100 306,300
Exelon - PECO PA 11,300 1,662,600
National Grid - Massachusetts MA 10,800 1,334,800
Total 1,218,500
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino
Editing by Nick Zieminski)
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