Pics: Power grid ‘apocalypse’ impacts southern states hit by hurricane

Energy officials confirmed on Wednesday that hundreds of power substations were out of service in North Carolina and South Carolina due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. The power outage situation has been described as a “grid apocalypse.”

In a Wednesday statement on X, formerly Twitter, Duke Energy announced, “Approximately 370 substations were out of service from the storm in the Duke Energy Carolinas service area. For those that were damaged and can’t be repaired in a timely manner – mobile substations will be installed to allow us to restore service as soon as it is safe to do so.”

Duke Energy shared pictures of the damage sustained by power grids in the North Carolina and South Carolina region on social media. Bill Norton, a Duke Energy spokesperson, explained, “With water levels coming down, we are starting to see some of this damage. We had entire substations that were under water.”

As of Friday morning, Poweroutage.US indicated that there were still more than 700,000 power outages in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, in addition to some remaining power outages in Florida and Virginia.

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Pics: Power grid 'apocalypse' impacts southern states hit by hurricane

Energy officials confirmed that hundreds of power substations were out of service in North and South Carolina due to Hurricane Helene.

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Half of my subdivision still doesn’t have power, there are multiple trees still laying on the power lines and partially blocking our only safe entrance.

 

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Half of my subdivision still doesn’t have power, there are multiple trees still laying on the power lines and partially blocking our only safe entrance.

Our power was restored after 5 days. The other half of my subdivision was out 15 days. My former boss, who lives in town still doesn’t have power. A 36” diameter 80’ pine tree fell across the end of his house. It took out the end of his house along with his electric service.