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Nearly 30,000 Without Power After NC Winter Storm

Officials say almost 30,000 customers remain without power after the winter storm.

Credit: MANDEL NGAN AFP/Getty Images

Workers from local power company Pepco repair power lines in the Woodley Park neighborhood in the wake of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Washington. The death toll from superstorm Sandy has risen to 32 in the United States and Canada, and was expected to climb further as several people remained missing, officials said. Officials in the states of Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia all reported deaths from the massive storm system, while Toronto police said a Canadian woman was killed by flying debris. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- State officials say almost 30,000 utility customers remain without electricity in North Carolina after a storm dumped snow, sleet and ice across most of the state.

Spokeswoman Crystal Feldman of the state emergency operations center said that was the number of customers without power as of Friday afternoon. That's down from 48,000 earlier in the day and 133,000 Thursday afternoon.

Outages had been most severe in the eastern part of the state, which got mostly ice and not snow.