CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Wednesday morning was the coldest morning Charlotte has had since Jan. 22, and thousands of people in the Charlotte area went without power.
Nearly 3,000 people were without power at one point in southeast Charlotte. The outage impacted people near Margaret Wallace Road and Independence Boulevard. Duke Energy said the outage was caused by something hitting the power lines, and was first reported at 4:21 a.m. By 7:25 a.m., the outage had been resolved.
In Union County, east of Monroe, roughly 1,200 people were without power due to an outage caused by equipment going offline. That outage was reported around 6:30 a.m. and has since been resolved.
In York County, South Carolina, around 400 households were without power Wednesday morning. That outage was reported around 7:30 a.m. By 1:20 p.m., all but a handful of households had power restored.