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  2. List of major power outages - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. September 2013 New Haven Line power outage - Wikipedia

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    The September 2013 New Haven Line power outage was an unplanned electrical power outage that impacted service on Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line for twelve days in 2013. On September 25, 2013, a 138- kV main feeder cable from Con Edison that provided electricity to an AC catenary-powered 8-mile (13 km) segment of the New Haven Line failed ...

  4. 2011 Halloween nor'easter - Wikipedia

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    In all, 3.2 million U.S. residences and businesses [7] in 12 states experienced power outages, with the storm also impacting three Canadian provinces. Some customers in Connecticut did not get power back until early November; [8] many outages lasted 11 days. [9]

  5. Torrential rains cause flooding in western Connecticut - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. February 2013 North American blizzard - Wikipedia

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    Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy declared a state of emergency at 12:00 p.m. EST (1700 UTC) on February 8, and closed limited-access highways statewide at 4:00 p.m. [57] Connecticut Light and Power and United Illuminating planned for 30 percent of customers to lose power in Connecticut, and hired out-of-state line crews to assist with power ...

  7. Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. November 2012 nor'easter - Wikipedia

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    On November 8 as of 9 a.m. EST, around 715,000 eastern U.S. homes and businesses were without power. This is an increase of nearly 43,000 from 12 hours earlier, due to the effects of the storm. [19] There were 167,000 power outages in New Jersey alone, and at least 50,000 on Long Island. [17]

  9. Northeast blackout of 1965 - Wikipedia

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    A map of the states and provinces affected. Not all areas within the political boundaries were blacked out. The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in ...