Winter storm brings power outages, leaves utilities customers in the dark
CBSN
Winter Storm Blair knocked out utilities for hundreds of thousands of customers across the U.S., leaving many American households in the dark Monday.
More than 300,000 electric customers were without power as of late Monday morning, led by the state of Virginia where nearly 110,000 customers are without power, according to PowerOutage.us.
More than 76,000 Kentuckians had also lost power, followed by more than 50,000 West Virginians, nearly 36,000 customers in Illinois, and more than 30,000 customers in Missouri, according to the power outage-tracking site. Texans and Kentuckians also suffered outages. No power outages were reported for any other U.S. states.
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