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Deaths. Almost 100. The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [1] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 p ...
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.
A state of emergency was also declared in Massachusetts, which allowed for the activation of the state's National Guard as well as other emergency measures. [42] Due to the power outages and downed trees shortly before Halloween, at least three towns in the state advised delaying trick-or-treating. [42]
60–100 homes [5] On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States.
Four Massachusetts towns — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — have enacted a voluntary evening lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease.
Update: Power restored to over 800 residents after Pierce County power outage. Julia Park. August 12, 2024 at 6:31 PM. Update: Power has been restored on Fox Island, Peninsula Light Company posted ...
In Boston, Massachusetts, officials warned of up to 30 inches (76 cm) of snow through early on January 29. [33] Early on January 28, a Blizzard Warning was issued for Rhode Island, Coastal New Hampshire, Eastern Massachusetts, and much of Maine. [34] Some of the same states also issued Snow emergencies and parking bans in small towns and cities ...
Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant. The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, United States, approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of Boston and 10 miles (16 km) south of Portsmouth. It has operated since 1990.