More than 130,000 Duke Energy customers in the Carolinas were still without power Monday in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which caused severe flooding and destruction in parts of the region. As of 11:10 a.

Duke Energy has extended the timeline to get power back to the last 26,000 customers still in the dark after Tropical Storm Helene caused historic grid damage.

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