Hurricane Sandy has wreaked havoc in the East Coast, killing at least 110 people in the United States. Power outages now stand at about 1.35 million homes and businesses, down sharply from Sunday, November 4 (1.86 million) with a peak of 8.5 million just seven days ago on October 30.
With new data from the Department of Energy, Zpryme has compiled eight days of data across U.S. states that have been affected by the hurricane.
October 29: 316,563 outages/customers without power
October 30: 8,204,190 outages/customers without power
October 31: 6,062,526 outages/customers without power
November 1: 4,454,650 outages/customers without power
November 2: 3,491,595 outages/customers without power
November 3: 2,497,421 outages/customers without power
November 4: 1,855,958 outages/customers without power
November 5: 1,351,683 outages/customers without power