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Wind speeds reached upward of 60 miles per hour between Friday night and Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service. They peaked at 81 miles per hour in Minooka, a village about ...
Ice can also weigh down power lines and cause outages. All city of Atlanta government offices are closed Friday and the city has opened multiple warming centers, according to a Wednesday news release.
A massive winter storm knocked out utilities for hundreds of thousands of customers across the U.S., leaving many American households in the dark Monday.. More than 300,000 electric customers were ...
March 13—Canada—The March 1989 geomagnetic storm [47] caused the Hydro-Québec power failure [48] which left seven million people in Quebec without power for over nine hours. [ 49 ] October 17—United States—The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked out power to about 1.4 million customers in Northern California , mainly due to damaged ...
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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 ...
Con Edison retracted its claim that New York City would have power by 1 a.m. That night some areas of Manhattan regained power at approximately 5 a.m. (August 15), the New York City borough of Staten Island regained power around 3 a.m. on August 15, and Niagara Mohawk predicted that the Niagara Falls area would have to wait until 8 a.m. In the ...
The three utility companies serving the mid-Hudson region are still working to restore power to more than 14,000 customers Friday afternoon More than 14,000 mid-Hudson Valley homes, businesses ...