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January 30—United States—A major ice storm hit Kansas City, Missouri, knocking trees into power lines and blowing up transformers throughout the city. The outage affected more than 270,000 people. [74] March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung.
The dark patches in the latter image depict areas left without electricity. In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, [6] 13–17, [7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in ...
September 16, 2024 at 10:52 AM. As heavy wind and rain from Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 pass over Southeastern North Carolina, some power outages are being reported. You can see the latest ...
A power outage (also called a powercut, a power out, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, or a blackout) is the loss of the electrical power network supply to an end user. There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network. Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission ...
September 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM. AUSTIN, Texas - Austin Energy crews spent most of Monday morning repairing a substation in East Austin. A fire at the substation on Middle Fiskville Rd. ignited a ...
CLICK HERE for the outage map or to report an outage. Western suburbs have been especially hard-hit with pockets of 5,000 or more customers without power in Wixom, South Lyon, Brighton and Howell.
The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1][2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3] It occurred on Thursday, September 8, 2011, beginning at about 3:38pm PDT, and was the ...
Power outages scattered across storm-weary Texas on Wednesday could linger into the weekend after storms flooded streets in Houston and ripped off roofs in Dallas, leaving a teenager dead and ...