Hurricane Dorian: Here are the power outages reported after outer bands pound the area

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Thurdsay’s power outages are below:

The entire city of Georgetown remains without power following Hurricane Dorian.

As of Thursday night, the city was in the dark because of a failure of the main transmission line from Santee Cooper, according to the Georgetown City’s Facebook page.

The city is one of thousands of locals that lost power as Hurricane Dorian, a Category 2 storm, passed along the Grand Strand.

Santee Cooper said there were widespread outages throughout its system as about 25,000 customers lost power. All but, 4,500 were restored by Thursday evening.

Here are the reported power outages locally around 5 p.m. Thursday:

• Santee Cooper: approximately 1,200 in the North Myrtle Beach and Little River areas, 1,200 in Myrtle Beach, 160 around U.S. Highway 501 near S.C. Highway 544, and more than 5,550 in the South Strand.
• Horry Electric: There is a smattering of power outage reported in the area most only effecting a few dozen customers. In the Bucksport area, one outage has nearly 300 customers in the dark.
• Duke Energy: There are 200 customers without power in the Galivants Ferry area and 200 in the Georgetown area.

• Pawleys Island police reported around 5 p.m. that power was lost to the island. There was no cable, internet or water service.

This story was originally published September 5, 2019 at 9:20 PM.