South Carolina was the worst-affected state, with 1,089,535 outages recorded as of early Saturday, according to PowerOutage.us, a service that tracks disruptions. In South Carolina's Greenville County alone, 258,688 outages were recorded.

Helene, which was downgraded to a tropical depression Friday afternoon, hit Georgia after making landfall in Florida.

Utility crews and first reponders are still struggling to assess the damage done by Hurricane Helene, which wreaked destruction on South Carolina in the early hours of Friday morning.