Hundreds of thousands of Duke Energy customers in the Carolinas were still without power Friday in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which caused severe flooding and destruction in parts of the region. As of 7:11 p.

As Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina with high winds and heavy, steady rainfall, the power outages and the road closures began.

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