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June 30 - India - Chennai suffered a major power outage that affected many parts of the city for more than 15 hours. July 11 - United States - The Chicago area was hit by a large derecho which disrupted power to over 850,000. July 11 - Cyprus - A half-week power outage affected all cities on the Greek part of the island. The outage was caused ...
Downed trees and power outages are also expected to be impacts from Monday's high winds across the eastern states. In addition to the high winds, light to moderate snow was expected to fall across ...
A fatal crash was reported around 9 p.m. local time Sunday evening in Worcester, Massachusetts, when a 31-year-old Massachusetts man was killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 290. The crash, inv
May 21, 2024 at 10:47 PM. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - High winds created power outages for residents across the Chicago area Tuesday night. A power line went down on North Dryden Avenue and East ...
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 ...
Heat waves cause roads and highways to buckle and melt, water lines to burst, and power transformers to detonate, causing fires. A heat wave can also damage railways, by buckling and kinking rails. This can slow down or delay traffic. It can even lead to cancellations of service when rails are too dangerous to traverse by trains. Power outages
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.
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning, or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [2]