Still without power after Irma? If you’re in Beaufort County, you’re not the only one.

Almost 1,600 customers in Beaufort County were still without electricity as of 8 p.m. Wednesday, two days after the strong winds of Tropical Storm Irma caused about 37,000 customers in the county to lose power.

The vast majority — 1,594 — of outages reported are customers of South Carolina Electric & Gas. The company estimated that 95 percent of power outages would be repaired by 11:45 p.m. Thursday, with outliers on Daufuskie and Fripp islands.

Palmetto Electric Cooperative had three outages reported in Beaufort County at 8 p.m. stemming from what appeared to be one issue on the north end of Hilton Head Island.

An online outage map for SCE&G shows the number of outages per county but currently does not show information on individual issues causing outages.

In Jasper County, 22 SCE&G customers were in the dark as of 8 p.m. Wednesday, down from nearly 300 in the morning. And in Hampton County, 19 SCE&G customers were without power at that time, down from over 120 in the morning.

Palmetto Electric Cooperative reported all outages in Jasper and Hampton counties had been resolved by 8 p.m.

Heavy wind gusts of 60 miles per hour and fallen trees on power lines caused outages in the Lowcountry on Monday, according to the utility companies.

This story was originally published September 13, 2017 at 9:31 AM with the headline "Still without power after Irma? If you’re in Beaufort County, you’re not the only one.."