Despite some residents around Western North Carolina getting power back, many more are still in the dark after Helene.

We’re seeing historic damage from this storm on a scale that many of us have never seen in western North Carolina in recent memory,” Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said.

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.