BECKLEY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Thousands are currently without power following severe storms this morning.
Currently, 116,476 customers in West Virginia are without power as of 12:20 PM.
AEP is reporting 95,246 of those outages while FirstEnergy is reporting 2,131.
The hardest hit counties include:
Kanawha: 48,734 outages
Fayette: 14,507 outages
Cabell: 10,437 outages
Wayne: 10,150 outages
Putnam: 7,458 outages
Lincoln: 6,135 outages
Jackson: 4,342 outages
Nicholas: 1,999 outages
These numbers are likely to change with the chance of more severe weather still in the forecast.