Over a thousand residents on the south side of the Pamlico River were without power this morning as temperatures hovered near freezing then quickly dropped again.

“Right now, there are still about 898 (people) with Duke Progress Energy out in Aurora,” said Lisa Respess, Beaufort County Emergency Management technician. “Tideland has got everything back up on the south side except one line.”

Sporadic outages were reported on the north side of the river, but Respess said they were back up and running as of this morning.

According to Beaufort County Emergency Management Coordinator John Pack, county residents need to be cautious with supplemental heating sources, especially making sure that they are well-ventilated. Generators should be kept either outside or in a well-ventilated garage so carbon monoxide fumes cannot build up and seep into the house; and rooms heated kerosene heaters should have a window cracked.

A hazardous weather outlook is still in effect for the county and temperatures will only climb to the mid-20s on Thursday and Friday, and lows will plummet into the single digits on Thursday night and mid-teens on Wednesday and Friday nights.