RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — As of Thursday afternoon, more than 400,000 people are without power across North Carolina as Zeta, which is now a post-tropical storm, moves through the Tar Heel State.
Zeta brought heavy rainfall and strong winds to the Carolinas after hitting the coast of Louisiana as a Category 2 Hurricane.
There are roughly 407,000 people without power in the state as of 3:40 p.m, according to Duke Energy. Most of the outages are concentrated in the western half of the state, where the mountains and foothills are getting the heaviest amounts of rain. As of 3 p.m., Forsyth County had nearly 50,000 outages.
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