Wilmington-area power outages: See maps as Idalia impacts North Carolina
The eye of Tropical Storm Idalia had largely moved through Southeastern North Carolina by Thursday morning, spinning offshore as it paralleled the coast and headed eastward out to sea, but the storm had left its impact across the region.
Along with flooded roads and some downed trees and other vegetation, power outages were sprinkled throughout the Wilmington area as the sun rose.
With rainfall amounts of more than 8 inches inland near Interstate 95 and more precipitation forecast before Idalia's trailing bands completely left Southeastern North Carolina, the weather service warned there is the potential for Idalia to bring down large limbs and trees, causing additional power outages along with flash flooding.
According to Poweroutage.us, there were nearly 9,000 customers without power in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties as of 8 a.m. Thursday. But by mid-afternoon, that number had fallen to under 50.
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Here's where you can find outage maps for the Wilmington area:
NEW HANOVER COUNTY
Duke Energy has more than 140,000 customers in New Hanover. While most of Wednesday saw few outages, that changed late Wednesday when nearly 2,400 customers lost power around 10:30 p.m. By early Thursday morning, that figure had jumped to nearly 4,000. The outages were centered around the Love Grove and Princess Place areas of Wilmington and nearly 900 customers in Kure Beach and Fort Fisher on Pleasure Island. By Thursday afternoon, the outages were down to one hand.
BRUNSWICK COUNTY
Brunswick Electric has nearly 98,000 customers in the county. As of 8 a.m. Thursday the utility was reporting just over 1,000 customers without power, centered around Sunset Beach and the southwest corner of the county. The number was down to eight by Thursday afternoon.
Duke Energy also serves nearly 18,500 customers in the coastal county. Although the utlility had several hundred customers without power early Thursday, that number was just one as of mid-afternoon.
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PENDER COUNTY
Pender has three companies that supply power to its residents and businesses. While all the utilities had outages early Thursday, everyone had power back by Thursday afternoon.
The biggest provider is Duke, with nearly 20,700 customers. The utility reported a few dozen customers without power as of 8 a.m.
Next is Four County EMC, with about 9,600 customers. The utility had more than 1,500 customers without power as of 8 a.m., with most around Burgaw and Currie.
Finally, Jones-Onslow EMC serves county customers in the far eastern parts of the county. The company was reporting no outages among its 8,700 customers Thursday morning.
OFF THE GRID
To see a live updating map of power outages in North Carolina and other states, click HERE.
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Contact reporter Gareth McGrath at GMcGrath@Gannett.com or @GarethMcGrathSN on Twitter.
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