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About 44,500 Progress Energy customers in North Carolina are without power as of noon today (Tuesday), the company says. These are the counties with 2,000 or more outages:
|
County |
Customers |
|
Craven |
11,100 |
|
Lenoir |
6,900 |
|
Onslow |
6,100 |
|
Wayne |
3,200 |
|
Beaufort |
3,100 |
|
Pamlico |
3,300 |
|
Carteret |
2,500 |
Other counties in coastal and eastern North Carolina have fewer than 2,000 outages.
Eric Frederick is the managing editor of newsobserver.com. Contact him at eric.frederick@newsobserver.com or 919-829-8956.
