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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.
Deaths. At least 5; 1 indirect [1] Property damage. $2.5-7.5 billion [2] [3] [4] The 2021 Pacific Northwest floods were a series of floods that affected British Columbia, Canada, and parts of neighboring Washington state in the United States. The flooding and numerous mass wasting events were caused by a Pineapple Express, a type of atmospheric ...
The Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 was a powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and southern British Columbia, Canada between December 14, 2006 and December 15, 2006. The storm produced hurricane-force wind gusts and heavy rainfall, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and leaving ...
The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in Canada.
Power in those areas could be shut off to prevent electrical equipment from sparking a fire – outages called Public Safety Power Shutoffs, or PSPS. As of Friday, monitored areas included 158,000 ...
The 2015 South Coast blackout was a power outage that affected more than 710,000 residents living in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was the largest blackout event in BC Hydro history. [1] [2] The blackout was a result of windstorm that hit the South Coast on August 29–30, 2015 ...
Parts of New England and New York were digging out of a nor'easter Wednesday that caused tens of thousands of power outages, numerous school cancellations and whiteout conditions on the roads. At ...
According to a Duke Energy Map of power outages in the Upstate, there are currently over 23,000 customers without power. Anderson County was the hardest hit, with 19,000 Duke customers without power.