Duke Energy expects to restore most of those remaining outages by Friday night, though some of the hardest hit regions are still inaccessible.

Just under 580,000 Duke Energy customers are still without power across the Carolinas following Hurricane Helene’s destruction. Well over 1.3 million customers were without power on Friday, Sept. 27,

The utility mobilizes Pinellas County barrier islands command center and continues to restore power in the hardest-hit areas