Turned out pretty badly around here.
In North Carolina, Duke Power said the storm, the worst in the company's history, left about 1.2 million customers, half of its total customer base, without power this morning.It's a bad time of year to be w/o power.
My wife and I were lucky not to lose power. We did lose a couple trees, a cedar and a Bradford pear. Most of the Bradford pear trees in the neighborhood were damaged to some extent.
In Charlotte [link|http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021205/nyth181_1.html|264,000 Duke Power customers] were w/o power this morning. Note that a customer often means a family. This is considerably more than lost power with Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
