HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Service has been restored to nearly 1,000 Horry Electric customers who lost power Monday morning.

The outage affecting 946 customers began at about 9 a.m. and affected an area between Carolina Bays Parkway and Forestbrook Road, according to the utility’s online outage map. Service was restored shortly before noon.

No information about the cause of the outage was immediately available.

Horry Electric has about 92,600 customers in its service area.

Count on News13 for updates.

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