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Track Map of The Galveston Hurricane, Saffir–Simpson Scale, 1900 ... and power outages that lasted for months. ... from New York to Connecticut to Rhode Island. It started as a Category 5 ...
Deaths. Almost 100. The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [1] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 p ...
March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75 ] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76 ] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
Hurricane-force winds and gusts affected much of the path, which knocked down trees and power lines. This left over 4 million people without power, causing the worst power outage in Connecticut history related to a natural disaster. Fallen trees caused six of the storm's fourteen deaths.
Power outages on Long Island PSEG Long Island had the most impacted customers with more than 2,600 customer in the dark. JCP&L said it had nearly 1,800 without power and Con Edison reported 1,000 ...
The storm left roughly 750,000 Connecticut residents without power, including 625,000 customers of Eversource Energy [164] and 123,000 customers of the United Illuminating Company. [165] Trees falling on wires were responsible for most of the power outages, and also resulted in portions of Merritt Parkway shutting down. [166]
Floyd caused large power-outages and major flood damage across the region, with over 5 inches (13 cm) of rain falling over most of the area. Danbury, Connecticut, received up to 15 inches (380 mm) of rain from the storm, resulting in extensive flooding in the city and surrounding areas.
Hurricane Henri (/ ɒ n ˈ r iː / ahn-REE [1]) was a minimal category 1 hurricane that impacted the Northeastern United States.The eighth named storm and third hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, Henri developed from a well-defined low-pressure system north-northeast of Bermuda, becoming a tropical depression on August 16.