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With empty shelves after power cut
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With empty shelves after power cut

Staff at a Swindon Tesco Express were forced to remove scores of frozen and refrigerated items from their shelves after a power cut. A spokesperson from Tesco later confirmed the power cut and the closure and said that engineers were on site trying to fix the problem.
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Michigan power outage
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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 caused by severe weather
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Power outage caused by severe weather

Over 350,000 customers were without power in Ohio as the Midwest faces a strengthening storm system causing powerful winds, severe thunderstorms and snow. The NWS warns that gusty winds could result in unsecured objects being blown around, tree limbs being blown down and additional power outages in the region.

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Severe weather caused power outages
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Severe weather caused power outages

Arkansas energy companies report thousands without power Friday evening as severe weather impacts Arkansans. More than 41,000 customers across Arkansas are in the dark.
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Hundreds of thousands of Texans without electricity
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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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Nearly 20,000 without power due to downed trees
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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
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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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Michigan regulators to hold hearings on power outages
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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
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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
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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
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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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Nearly 100,000 customers without power as strong winds hit
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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
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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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Cause of power failure remains a mystery
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Explosion Leads to Power Outage Downtown
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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.
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Thousands without power due to a winter storm
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Thousands without power due to a winter storm

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses across multiple states in the Northeast were without power after a winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow across areas from central New York to the Maine-Canada border.
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Power outage in Western Washington
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Power outage in Western Washington

Due to high demand for electricity, power outages were noted. Nearly 12,300 Puget Sound Energy customers were without power. In the Snoqualmie Valley, outages were reported near Tanner, Fall City and Preston. Service was restored later.
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Flooding and power outages in California
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Flooding and power outages in California

Rounds of heavy rain, wind, and snow were battering California once again, prompting flood alerts and power outages in several regions. More than 19,000 customers were without electricity, according to poweroutage.us.
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North Carolina power outage
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North Carolina power outage

A state of emergency extended for a third day Tuesday in Moore County, which is roughly 60 miles southwest of Raleigh, as more than 30,000 customers remained without power amid cold temperatures.
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More than 5,000 outages reported in one county
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More than 5,000 outages reported in one county

A powerful thunderstorm that hit Central Kentucky left thousands of residents without power. Smaller numbers of outages were also reported in Anderson, Boyle, Clark, Fayette Franklin, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Marion Scott and Washington counties. Crews were working to restore service.
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At least 50 dead and millions without power caused by a storm
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At least 50 dead and millions without power caused by a storm

The extreme weather conditions left more than one million without power on Friday, also travelers hoping to make it home for holidays were plunged into chaos on Friday afternoon when more than 4,500 flights were canceled and more than 6,000 delayed as the winter storm engulfed the central and eastern US.