By September 1, more than 400,000 customers in the state remained without power.
State officials said that 6,000 customers of other utilities remained without power.
Roughly one million customers remained without power throughout New England.
About 290,000 customers remained without electrical power as many of the 1.3 million residents who followed evacuation orders began returning home.
But five days after the storm, on both the east coast of Florida and the southwest, more than 400,000 customers remained without power.
About 4,000 customers remained without power Friday night, but crews had restored it to about 40,000 others.
After a certain point, when only those well-known customers remain, the bartender, who has long since forsworn smoking and drinking, will sometimes lock the door.
Many customers would remain without power until the weekend.
Aside from me and Randy, only one customer remained.
Its primary customers, they insist, remain in the upper income bracket.