McCLELLANVILLE, S.C. (AP) - More than 60-thousand customers are without power along South Carolina's coast after Hurricane Charley struck. Officials with South Carolina Electric and Gas say about 32-thousand customers in the Charleston area were left without power. Santee Cooper officials say more than 33-thousand customersalong the Grand Strand lost power.

Most of the state's Grand Strand resort region stood nearly empty after a mandatory evacuation of some of the area's 180-thousand tourists and residents.  By noon today Governor Mark Sanford had lifted those evacuation orders. Sanford is now headed to Conway where he will visit a shelter and the emergency operations center. Hurricane Charley had weakened significantly by the time it made its second landfall.

The hurricane caused a "significant loss of life" in Florida at a mobile home park in Punta Gorda and thousands of people were homeless. Charley also caused widespread damage to coastal areas of Florida and knocked out power to an estimated one-point-three million homes and businesses.