(Reuters) – More than 231,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and California were still without power on Friday after a series of storms battered the region over the past week, according to meteorologists and data from PowerOutage.us.
That is down from over 268,000 customer outages in the region on Thursday and a peak of over 939,000 outages in several states from Texas to Kentucky on Tuesday.
Tornado-spawning thunderstorms that swept the Southern Plains and the Ozark Mountains killed at least 21 across four U.S. states over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Texas power company Oncor, a unit of California-based Sempra Energy, had the most outages with 121,031 customers without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to PowerOutage.us.
Oncor said it had already restored power to over 500,000 customers. However, it added that heavy rain, thunder, lightning and flooding this week, including Thursday night, were impacting several of the communities where its teams are working to restore power.
Major outages by state:
State Outages
Texas 190,377
Louisiana 29,861
California 11,394
Total Out 231,632
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino and Anushree Mukherjee; editing by Jason Neely and Josie Kao)
