Residents across Western North Carolina struggle to restore electricity days after Tropical Storm Helene swept through.

Duke Energy’s online outage map is covered with notifications of places without electricity. Company spokesperson Jeff Brooks says over 1000 locations are without power. Helene’s heavy wind and rain damaged hundreds of substations across the Carolinas.

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.