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Tens of thousands without power in the Charlotte area due to severe weather
Neighborhoods in south Charlotte are seeing a good bulk of the outages.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Over 47,000 Duke Energy customers are without power across the Charlotte area, according to the company’s outage map.
The bulk of those affected are in Charlotte with 19,000 outages being reported, while north of Salisbury, North Carolina, has a great deal of the outages with 6,000, according to Duke Energy. The estimated time of restoration is unknown, according to the energy company
About 8,000 customers are without power in Matthews and around 3,000 customers are without power just east of Southpark. The estimated time of restoration is unknown at this time in Matthews and in north Charlotte.
More than 3,700 outages are contained in Claremont in Catawba County. According to Catawba County Communications, one person died around 1 p.m. along Evening Drive, located south of Old Catawba Road. The communications center also confirmed the National Weather Service was in the area to evaluate exactly what type of severe weather hit the area.
At the height of the storm Tuesday afternoon, there were more than 76,000 customers in the Charlotte area without power.
The WCNC Charlotte Weather team said the strong-to-severe thunderstorms would include gusts up to 50 mph, flooding rains up to 4 inches, and even tornadoes in the Charlotte area. Even North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency ahead of the severe weather threat.
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