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Over 1.1m homes and businesses were still without power in the U.S. Southeast and Midwest on Wednesday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on Sept. 26, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Those outages were down from about 1.7 million on Tuesday as utilities continued to restore power. In total, the storm knocked out service to about 5.5 million customers, predominantly in the south-east. Helene’s winds, rain and storm surge killed more than 160 people.
