Power Outage News in the US
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Nearly 20,000 without power due to downed trees
Tens of thousands customers were without power days after a series of weather events brought heavy rain and strong winds to western Washington, according to KING 5's First Alert Weather Team. Crews were working in the area and restored services a couple of hours later.
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Silicon Valley Hit With Widespread Power Outages
Large swaths of California’s tech hub Silicon Valley remained without electricity after the latest atmospheric river brought heavy rain and high winds that toppled power lines. Almost one-third of the homes and businesses in Santa Clara were without power. More than 180,000 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were blacked out, service was later restored.
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Power outage affected about 500 homes and businesses
A car accident caused a power outage that knocked out 490 homes north of Lakeshore Road, between Vine Street and Welland Canals Parkway, according to Alectra Utilities officials. Crews were dispatched to restore power.
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Energy error causes 4000 customers to lose power
Duke Energy crews have restored power to more than 4,000 customers after a power outage along U.S. Highway 41. The cause of the outage is acknowledged
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Sonoma County Outages Were Caused By Balloons
Metallic balloons that drifted into PG&E power lines caused more than 600 powuer outages, a 27 percent increase from the previous year and the highest number of balloon-related outages that PG&E has seen in a decade.
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Michigan regulators to hold hearings on power outages
Michiganders across the state are haunted by painful memories of cold, dark days following nasty weather that at one point cut power to some 800,000 homes and businesses, with some people out for a week or more. Now state regulators want to hear about it. The commission wants to figure out what's causing so many outages, particularly after severe weather, and push the utilities to fix the issue, at outages.
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Nearly 1 million without power
Power crews were working to restore power to almost 1 million customers across the Great Lakes, South and mid-Atlantic states after a powerful winter storm made its way across the U.S. Wet, heavy snow and high winds left many without power in southeastern Michigan
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Without power after strong winds cause outages
Powerful wind gusts knocked out power to thousands of Mississippians on the heels of strong storms that rolled through the Magnolia State. Wind gusts as strong as 57 miles per hour were recorded at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport as remnants of the storm moved eastward.
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A storm caused power outages and others damaages
A storm system marched eastward Friday, threatening heavy snow in the Midwest and Northeast after spawning likely tornadoes in Texas and Louisiana that damaged homes, businesses, a university campus and left thousands without power.
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Midnight power outage
More than 2,400 Saugus homes were impacted by a power outage. Equipment failure caused the outage, which continued to impact 104 households in the area bounded by Silver Oak Court, Pepper Place, Foxwood Lane and Raintree Lane.
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Michigan power outage
Crews were working to restore power to thousands of residents in Michigan, where over 130,000 customers were in the dark, days after an icy winter storm passed through. The highest concentration of outages was in Hillsdale County, located in southern Michigan near the Ohio border, where roughly 38% of energy customers – over 8,000 homes and businesses – were in the dark
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Power outage impacts over 9,000 customers
Many Orem residents were without power. More than 9000 customers were affected. UT. Crews restored services a couple of hours later, the cause of the outage is due to a problem with the substation.
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Nearly 100,000 customers without power as strong winds hit
Close to 100,000 Californians were without power as gusty winds and winter storms continue to move through the state. Most of the outages have been occurring in Northern and Central California, as San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco.
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Power outage caused delays in the airport JFK
An electrical fire at Terminal 1 at Kennedy International Airport caused a power outage that forced the diversion of flights to other terminals and even to other airports along the East Coast
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Power outages due to car accident
Some Entergy customers were without energy after a single car accident in Orange. Crews were working to restore power as quickly as possible. The cause of the outage was a single car accident. The accident resulted in more than 800 customers out of power.
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Power outage affected customers in Austin
More than 30,000 customers did not have power. Officials said downed trees and power lines were responsible for persistent outages. Adding to the misery was the continued presence of fallen trees and downed utility poles throughout the area.
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Crash causes power outage
A utility pole was broken during an automobile accident in Berkeley. About 1000 customers were affected because of the power outage. Power was restored a couple of hours later.
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Cause of power failure remains a mystery
The cause of a power failure which forced a light aircraft to ditch in the sea off Jersey’s south-east coast remains a mystery, an air accident report has concluded. An Air Accidents Investigation Branch report released this week has set out the final moments of the flight, but stated that the ’cause of the power loss was not established’.
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Winds cause power outages
Strong winds are causing damage and power outages across Kentucky. At least 37 Kentucky counties were under severe or moderate wind advisories. Fayette and Madison counties both had more than 1,500 customers without power. Other notable outage were in Pulaski County with 3,398 customers being without power, and in Pendleton County with 1,381 customers without power.
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Violations after power outage
Nearly two weeks after a disastrous power failure at The Algonquin apartments on the boundary of Hyde Park and Kenwood, hundreds of residents are still unable to return home.This happened after a transformer blew because Mac Properties – in violation of building code – replaced the boilers with electric heaters, the department said.
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Thousands without power in LA after outage
Scattered power outages blamed on Tropical Storm Kay were affecting thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers, prompting officials to schedule additional field crews to respond to situations throughout the coverage area. The utility urged residents to use caution around downed or dangling power lines or poles.
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Thousands suffer power outage in Texas
Thousands across the state of Texas were without power due to wintry weather conditions.
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Hundreds of thousands of Texans without electricity
More than 300,000 customers in Texas were without electricity because of localized outages, but the state’s main power grid remained stable, affected almost 200000 customers. Crews were working with frozen equipment to restore service.
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Planned power outage in Mon County
The Monongalia County Emergency Management Agency announced that 112 customers were out of power for part of the day. The outage affected residents north of Cheat Lake off U.S. 119 near the West Virginia/Pennsylvania state line, specifically on Camp Run Road.
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Explosion Leads to Power Outage Downtown
A downtown Los Angeles Department of Water and Power explosion, knocked out power to thousands of customers Monday and prompted street closures. The explosion damaged a series of electrical vaults, leaving about 685 customers without power in the downtown area and more than 3,200 customers without power in El Sereno.