Aug 6 (Reuters) - More than 133,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power early on Tuesday, a day after Hurricane Debby slammed into the state's Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

The number was down from a peak of 350,000 outages on Monday.

Debby, now a tropical storm, drenched northern Florida and killed several people as it churned toward Georgia and the Carolinas, threatening a week of torrential downpours and flooding across the region.

The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy (DUK.N) , opens new tab, which had about 44,000 clients still without power. It said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.

It was followed by Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative, with 23,042 customers cut off in the state.

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