Thousands of power outages linger in SC as Tropical Storm Debby continues its long stay

Chris Trainor

August 8, 2024 at 9:40 a.m.·1 min read

Counties across South Carolina continued to deal with power outages Thursday afternoon as Tropical Storm Debby lingered in the Palmetto State

There were about 13,000 power outages being reported across the Palmetto State as of 3:03 p.m. Thursday, according to poweroutage.us, which collects power outage data from across the U.S.

In terms of providers, Duke Energy reportedly had the most outages as of about 3 p.m. Thursday, with 7,147. Dominion Energy was reporting about 3,626 outages at that time.

Lexington County had about 1,900 total outages as of 3 p.m., while Laurens County was dealing with 1,568 outages. Richland County had about 1,492 outages as of early Thursday afternoon.

Tropical Storm Debby has dumped torrents of rain on South Carolina this week. John Quagliariello of the National Weather Service in Columbia said the storm would bring “tropical storm force winds, storm surge along the coast, a few tornadoes and the dreaded catastrophic flash and urban flooding” to the Palmetto State. At least one tornado has been reported this week, in Edisto Beach, where a storm ripped through some homes and restaurants.

While Debby spun off the coast on Wednesday, it made landfall once again in South Carolina at about 2 a.m. Thursday near Bulls Bay, according to the National Weather Service. The storm was expected to continue its slow crawl northward through the day Thursday.

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