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A woman whose home near Canadian, Texas, was destroyed in the record-breaking Smokehouse Creek wildfire is suing the power company, alleging that a fallen power pole near Stinnett started the fire.
The largest wildfire in Texas history was caused by a power line after a pole that “appeared to be decayed at the base” fell into a grassy area, a Texas A&M Forest Service investigator ...
A car that crashed into a power pole shut down Turner Road near Airway Drive and triggered an hours-long power outage Thursday morning. Salem Police reported the crash around 8 a.m. and said there ...
In 1987 a 90-minute loss of power to Nasdaq's automated trading computer, caused by a squirrel, affected twenty million trades. [9] [17] [18] Nasdaq was shut down for about 30 minutes again in 2014 by a squirrel-induced power outage.
One tornado that touched down in the small town of Morton severely damaged or destroyed several homes and was rated high-end EF2. Two EF1 tornadoes downed numerous trees in Philadelphia, Mississippi as well, one of which collapsed the exterior wall of an urgent care. Two EF2 tornadoes near Learned snapped numerous large trees and power poles as ...
Power outages are categorized into three different phenomena, relating to the duration and effect of the outage: A transient fault is a loss of power typically caused by a fault on a power line, e.g. a short circuit or flashover. Power is automatically restored once the fault is cleared. A brownout is a drop in voltage in an electrical power ...
On 29 March 2015, Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus A320-211 registered as C-FTJP, touched down short of the runway while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in low visibility and heavy snow, colliding with a power pole and an antenna array, cutting power to the airport and causing the landing gear to separate from the aircraft ...
More than 100,000 power outages were reported in Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky, leaving people across the region in the dark. The system was named Winter Storm Blair by The Weather Channel. See ...