As Helene barreled its way through the Carolinas late last week, thousands of Duke Energy customers remained without power on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of Duke Energy customers in the Carolinas were still without power Monday in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which caused severe flooding and destruction to parts of the region.As of 3:13 p.

Duke Energy is continuing to make repairs to power lines and reports that a majority of the outages in the Upstate will be repaired by Friday.

The Charlotte utility giant said damage from the storm is "unlike anything we have seen before in the Carolinas."

In a statement, Duke Energy said a majority of customers are expected to have power returned no later than Friday evening, Oct. 4. However, repair efforts are so widespread that very few areas have been assigned estimated times of restoration.

Duke Energy is reporting that work to restore power to thousands of customers across the Upstate and Western North Carolina will take several days.According to the outage map, there are more than 649,

There are lots of areas across the South Carolina Upstate and North Carolina mountains where we’re going to have to completely rebuild parts of our system, not just repair

Western North Carolina suffered devastating damage from Helene, with high winds and heavy rainfall that led to significant power outages.According to Duke Ener

Hurricane Helene caused extensive damage in the western part of North Carolina. See the map of power outages caused by the storm.

Days after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on the Carolinas, thousands are still without power. Crews from as far as Canada are working to get power restored, but how soon will that be? Jeff Brooks with Duke Energy joined Queen City News to answer some questions regarding the outages and when

As Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina with high winds and heavy, steady rainfall, the power outages and the road closures began.