(FOX Carolina) – Thousands of customers in western NC and eastern TN are without power Friday evening, with multiple outages reported in the region.

The French Broad Electric Membership Corporation’s <a href=”https://www.frenchbroademc.com/outagemap.cfm” target=”_blank”>outage map</a> reports a more than 6,600 customers are in the dark as of 8:43 p.m. just more