when was the big power outage in north america
1996 Western North America blackouts


Energy to investigate the reasons for the widespread power outage and whether it could have been prevented. On August 10, 1996, the western electric grid experienced another massive blackout. This power outage affected customers in seven western U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and Baja California, Mexico. Approximately 7.5 million customers lost power for periods ranging from several minutes to six hours. The outage stretched from Canada to New Mexico and knocked out power to 4 million customers amid a triple-digit heat wave. At 2:06 p.m., the Big
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List of major power outages


May 31, a powerful wind storm caused a power outage for nearly two million customers across much of central North America. On September 7, a series of widespread derechos in the Northeast (the Labor Day Derechos) caused a power outage for hundreds of thousands of customers for several days. On December 8, affecting San Francisco, California, and its environs, over 350,000 customers (buildings) or 940,000 people were affected by an outage caused when the Pacific Gas and Electric Company placed a San Mateo sub-station online at
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outages lasting up to two weeks. The early-January North American Ice Storm of 1998 caused prolonged blackouts in northeastern North America, particularly in Quebec, where many transmission towers were destroyed by ice. Over 3.5 million customers in total lost power during the event. From February 19 to March 27, the 1998 Auckland power crisis resulted in the entire Auckland Central Business District in Auckland, New Zealand being without power for several weeks, after a line failure caused a chain reaction leading to the failure of three other lines. On
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December 2009 North American blizzard


and West Virginia on December 19 and suspended service in and out of New York late Saturday. Thousands of power outages were reported in Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina, reportedly caused by snow weighing down on power lines. By midnight Saturday morning, when the storm had just begun to strike the area, reported power outages had already exceeded 40,000. In Kentucky, 107,000 power outages were reported. A snow emergency was declared in Washington, D.C., where Mayor Adrian Fenty asked residents to avoid venturing onto the roads. States
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


morning, September 18, 90,000 DP&L customers remained without power. Also hard hit were central Ohio (with over 350,000 customers losing power) and northeastern Ohio (with over 310,000 customers losing power). A curfew was implemented on September 17 in Carlisle due to increased looting activity as a result of the lengthy power outage and damage. There were 370,000 outages in the state capital of Columbus. Many of the citizens in Columbus were without power for close to a week, because 25 percent of the AEP company's workers were in
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a large portion of central North America and caused power outages for about one million customers from Iowa to Ontario. On August 24, Hurricane Andrew made landfall on Elliot Key. As it passed over the northern Florida Keys it downed 17 miles of power lines, breaking the wooden poles they were strung on, along a path that was in four feet of water, stretching from the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant southward to the upper Keys. The shallow depth prevented the use of large construction barge cranes for rebuilding the power pylons but the
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power for 1–6 hours. On June 7, Kenya went without power for over 4 hours. The nationwide blackout was caused when a rogue monkey entered a power station. Only about 10 million citizens were affected by the outage as the World Bank estimates that only 23% of the country's population have access to electricity. On Thursday, September 1, Hurricane Hermine swept across the big bend area of Florida, directly affecting the state's capital of Tallahassee. Hermine disrupted power for more than 350,000 people in Florida and southern Georgia
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1985 Atlantic hurricane season


141,000 tonnes of bananas and 87,078 tonnes of other fruits and vegetables. Kate damaged 88,207 houses and destroyed 4,382 others. There were 10 deaths and about 50 injuries. Damage was estimated at $400 million. In the Florida Keys, strong winds downed trees and left power outages between Big Pine Key and Key West. Further north in the Florida Panhandle, strong winds also resulted in numerous power outages, including in Tallahassee, where 90% of the city was left without electricity. About 242 buildings were severely damaged in the Florida
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Asia-America Gateway


message when accessing overseas websites. Another outage occurred on May 26, along with a scheduled maintenance outage in June. 2015 was viewed as one of the most troublesome years for the AAG submarine cable. However, 2017 has now taken over as the year with the most outages for the Asia-American Gateway Internet cable. The Asia-American Gateway cable underwent maintenance again from 22 June 2016 to 28 June 2016, slowing down internet connections between Southeast Asia and North America. On 2 August 2016 the AAG cable snapped again,
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Holcomb Fire


Valley Road north of Highway 18, the Holcomb fire was initially reported burning in heavy timber, tall grass and chaparral with a rapid rate of spread. Voluntary evacuations for homes in the Baldwin Lake, Holcomb Valley and Big Bear dump areas were put into effect. Highway 18 from Baldwin Lake Road north to the Mitsubishi Cement Plant was also closed. The fire caused rolling power outages throughout the Big Bear area as temperatures in the mountains reached into the upper 80s, straining power conditions. On Tuesday, a major flare up on
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Forced outage


In electrical engineering, forced outage is the shutdown condition of a power station, transmission line or distribution line when the generating unit is unavailable to produce power due to unexpected breakdown. Forced outage can be caused by equipment failures, disruption in the power plant fuel supply chain, operator error etc. Forced outage rate (FOR or FOAR) of a power station unit is the probability that the unit will not be available for service when required. FOR is defined as the number of hours the unit is on forced outage over the
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June 2012 North American derecho


outages also affected an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud datacenter in Northern Virginia, which caused Instagram, Pinterest, and Netflix to experience significant outages. In Franklin County, Virginia, southeast of Roanoke, a volunteer firefighter was killed by a falling tree while responding to an emergency. Two people in Big Island were killed in a storm-related house fire during the night of June 29 In the Roanoke Valley area, upwards of 65,000 residents in Roanoke, Lynchburg, and Danville lost power. Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia declared a state of
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1996 Western North America blackouts


The 1996 Western North America blackouts were two widespread power outages that occurred across Western Canada, the Western United States, and Northwest Mexico on July 2 and August 10, 1996. They were spread 6 weeks apart and were thought to be similarly caused by excess demand during a hot summer. Though affecting millions, the blackouts were for the most part just an inconvenience, and not emergencies. On both occasions planes continued to take-off and land, and power was restored within a few minutes or hours. The blackouts raised
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BlackBerry


The service was restored after several hours. In 2007 the e-mail service suffered an outage which led for calls by some questioning the integrity towards BlackBerry's perceived centralized system. In 2009 the company had an outage reportedly covering the whole of North America. At 2011-10-10 10:00 UTC began a multi-day outage in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, affecting millions of BlackBerry users. There was another outage the following day. By October 12, 2011, the Blackberry Internet Service went down in North
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Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho


power outage ever in the state of Michigan (but later surpassed by the 2003 North America blackout). 860,000 people lost power, slightly more than the number from the Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991. It blew down five 345-kilovolt transmission towers owned by Consumers Energy. Thirteen counties in Central Lower Michigan were declared federal disaster areas. One person drowned in Ontario when his boat turned over from the derecho's strong winds. Buildings in Toronto lost numerous windows and significant damage was observed in areas such as Trenton, Napanee, Picton
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September 2013 New Haven Line power outage


The September 2013 New Haven Line power outage was an unplanned electrical power outage that impacted service on Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line for twelve days in 2013. On September 25, 2013, a 138-kV main feeder cable from Con Edison that provided electricity to an AC catenary-powered segment of the New Haven Line failed, causing electric train service over the line to halt between Mount Vernon, New York and Harrison, New York. Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line operates from New Haven, Connecticut, to
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June 2012 North American derecho


emergency after the storm. 911 emergency service was disrupted for over two million customers in Virginia and West Virginia, with the greatest concentration of outages occurring in Northern Virginia and some customers experiencing 911 outages for several days. These outages were due to telephone switching equipment failing after a disruptive combination of power outages and power surges. Approximately 68,000 customers were without power in Washington, D.C., and roughly 1,600,000 customers lost power in Maryland, including some in each of the state's counties. Water restrictions were also enacted in Montgomery County and
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2011 Southwest blackout


California megalopolis experienced extreme clogging, especially on the I-15 and I-5 corridors between southeastern Greater Los Angeles and the San Diego area's North County. One hospital was left without power for two hours when its backup generator failed. Blythe, California in the Palo Verde Valley was reportedly not affected by the outage. Eleven hours after the outage began, power was restored to 694,000 of the affected customers, and by 4:30 am on September 9 power was restored to all customers, although the system was described as "still fragile".
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April 2007 nor'easter


The April or Spring Nor'easter of 2007 was a nor'easter that affected mainly the eastern parts of North America during its four-day course, from April 14 to April 17, 2007. The combined effects of high winds, heavy rainfall, and high tides led to flooding, storm damages, power outages, and evacuations, and disrupted traffic and commerce. In the north, heavy wet snow caused the loss of power for several thousands of homes in Ontario and Quebec. The storm caused at least 18 fatalities. The storm that
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Generating Availability Data System


The Generating Availability Data System (GADS) is a database produced by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). It includes annual summary reports comprising the statistics for power stations in the United States and Canada. GADS is the main source of power station outage data in North America. This reporting system, initiated by the electric utility industry in 1982, expands and extends the data collection procedures begun by the industry in 1963. NERC GADS is recognized today as a valuable source of reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM
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List of major power outages


, Central American countries felt a 6-hour power outage to millions, Panama stated power was returned by GMT 00 Hrs. On July 8, an explosion at a Northridge power plant causes a widespread power outage in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. (LA Times)(Sky News) On July 27 a crew working on the replacement for the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S., severed a power cable and caused a blackout on the Outer Banks islands which affected more than 7,000 people during the peak of
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service in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro, affecting tens of thousands of people. On May 25–August 3, the 2005 Moscow power blackouts ten-week-long power outage affected more than two million people in central Russia. The blackout was due to a cascading failure of the power grid started by a transformer failure. Some lines of Moscow Metro lost power, stranding people in trains, 10 weeks fully power restored. Starting on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused widespread power outages throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
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Arizona Public Service


of Northern Mexico. The outage was the result of 23 events that occurred on five power grids in a span of 11 minutes including the APS North Gila Substation. Federal, regional and local officials are investigating what happened and why the outage cascaded the way it did. Most of the areas affected were served by San Diego Gas & Electric, which saw its entire service area lose power. The outage appears to have been caused by the actions of an APS employee in the North Gila substation, and it is unknown why safeguards
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January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American blizzard


, Oklahoma, and Missouri. At least 6,400 flight cancellations occurred across North America before the storm. Impact was severe at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, as over 1,100 flights were canceled there. A less severe but still a major impact was at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto where about 300 of its 1,400 daily flights were canceled. By the end of February 2, at least 13,000 individual flight cancellations had taken place across North America. Many local and widespread power outages affected locations along the storm track, including in Illinois
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Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system


by a few 735 kV power lines. This contributed to the severity of the power outage following the North American ice storm of 1998. The extent and duration of this blackout has generated criticism of the transmission system, and there is controversy concerning the use of hydroelectric dams. The first hydroelectric stations in Québec were built by private entrepreneurs in the late 1800s. In 1903 the first long distance high-voltage transmission line in North America was built, a 50 kV line connecting a Shawinigan powerstation to Montréal, 135 km away.
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Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station


a widespread power outage in South Florida, affecting 700,000 customers. At least 2.5 million people were without power. The blackout was initially caused by an overheated voltage switch that soon caught fire in a power substation in Miami, 23 miles away from the plant. The fire occurred at 1:08 PM and caused an automatic shutdown of the power plant. This led to a domino effect that caused outages as far north as Daytona Beach and Tampa. Power was restored by 4:30 PM. The reason this malfunction caused such widespread outages is still
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generating capacity for the lower keys in one day as there was no storm damage that far south. Key West power was in the process of converting to sourcing 100% of its electricity from the Turkey Point facility. On October 4, Hurricane Opal, which killed at least 59 people, knocked-out power to over two million customers across eastern and southern North America. On July 2–3 in the United States, Canada and Mexico there were 2 million people that lost power due to a transmission line overheating in Idaho and a
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January 2018 North American blizzard


as far south as northern Levy County, Florida. Widespread power outages affected much of the Southeast U.S. coast during the storm's infancy; nearly 100,000 electricity customers were without power in the Florida-Georgia border region, including over 6,000 in Glynn County, Georgia. Heavy icing downed trees and power lines throughout St. Simons Island, Georgia, causing extensive power outages. Power outages impacted Nassau County, Florida to a similar extent, prompting the opening of an emergency shelter in Hilliard, Florida. Other cold weather shelters throughout the area
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February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard


their worst power outages of all time. For example, PECO Energy suffered its 9th highest power outage since the ice storm of January 1994. About 225,000 homes and businesses lost power. Outages by county were 60,500 in Chester, 55,000 in Delaware, 47,650 Bucks, 44,700 in Montgomery and 17,000 in Philadelphia. All power was restored by the 13th. The utility replaced 56 miles of cable, 50 transformers, 51 poles, replaced or reconnected 8,000 fuses, and 1,550 pole top cross arms. Damage to the infrastructure was estimated at
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North American Electric Reliability Corporation


system. The ES-ISAC, which changed its name in 2015 to Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, shares timely information with industry through its secure web portal. In August 2003, North America experienced its worst blackout to date, as 50 million people lost power in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada. A United States–Canada Power System Outage Task Force was formed to investigate the causes of the blackout and to make recommendations to prevent future blackouts. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 called for the
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List of major power outages


230-kV line between Montana and Idaho tripping. Some customers were without power for minutes, while others were without for hours. On August 10, the Western Intertie buckled under the high summer heat of the 1996 Western North America blackouts, causing a cascading power failure affecting nine western states of the United States and parts of Mexico. Four million people were affected. Power was out in some locations for four days. On November 19, a severe ice storm affected the region around Spokane, Washington and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho causing power
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lost power in the Washington, D.C. area, due to severe storms that swept through the area. On September 1–21, Iceland experienced a massive power outage. On February 2, in Texas, forced outages at two major coal-fired power plants and high electricity demand due to cold weather caused rolling blackouts affecting more than one million customers. On February 3, Cyclone Yasi hit communities in North Queensland, Australia. The cyclone winds reached 300 km/h (186mp/h) and caused widespread damage through many communities.
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Midnapore


Vidyasagar University, Amtala, Central bus stand, Battala, golkunwar chawk, sipoy bazar by sharing basis, which is a big boost for the city's development. Electricity is available, although as in the rest of West Bengal, demand exceeds supply. Power outages are common in the summer and monsoon months, although outages lasting more than an hour are becoming rarer. Most businesses and upper middle-class and rich households have backup generators and batteries that they use in times of outages. Water is a scarce resource in Midnapore
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


2.6 million outages in the state of Ohio alone 26 people were killed in the interior states. Ohio alone sustained over $560 million in damage. In Arkansas, about 200,000 customers lost power as a result of the winds, the worst power loss in that state since an ice storm in 2000. Damage was widespread, with trees and power lines knocked down in many areas. At least five tornadoes—all rated EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale—were reported, in Garland, Hot Spring, Lonoke, Perry and Saline
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


area, over 300,000 customers were without power - the worst power outage in the utility's history. In western Kentucky, outside crews had to be brought in from as far away as Mississippi to restore power. Statewide, well over 600,000 customers lost electricity as a result of the winds. In Simpsonville, a boy was struck and killed by a blown tree limb while outdoors. Much of Illinois suffered significant flooding. The hardest hit rivers were the DuPage, Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers. Many volunteers were called in to fill
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Power outage


safety are at risk. Institutions such as hospitals, sewage treatment plants and mines, will usually have backup power sources such as standby generators, which will automatically start up when electrical power is lost. Other critical systems, such as telecommunication, are also required to have emergency power. The battery room of a telephone exchange usually has arrays of lead–acid batteries for backup and also a socket for connecting a generator during extended periods of outage. Power outages are categorized into three different phenomena, relating to the duration and effect
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


to survey the damage. Ike caused $1.255 billion in damage in Ohio. The Cincinnati metropolitan area was hit extremely hard, with over 927,000 households losing power in that region (approximately 2.1 million people). A Duke Energy spokesperson said "We have never seen anything like this. Never. We're talking about 90 percent of our customers without power" On September 15, 16 and 17, most of the schools in Hamilton County and Butler County had classes cancelled because of power outages. In Cincinnati, the effects of
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California Balloon Law


proposed by Senator Jack Scott to the California State Senate on May 29, 2008, would have banned foil-lined party balloons in California because of the power outages they cause when they snag on power lines. According to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, there are 100150 power outages each year due to metallic balloons. These power outages affect thousands of customers statewide and are costly to repair. A study in 2007 indicated that Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and Burbank Water and Power experienced hundreds of balloon-
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New Binh Duong City urban area was the direct cause for a massive power outage in the southern region of Vietnam. When moving a tree on Wednesday afternoon, the truck driver let the tree bump onto a line in the national power grid (500 kV), causing an outage in 22 provinces and cities in the southern part of Vietnam, according to Vietnam Electricity, 8 hours fully restored. On September 24, the Trakia region of Turkey lost electric power. According to TREDAS (Power distribution utility of Trakia region),
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21, February 27, complete power outage in Sudan. On March 2, a Nor'easter struck the east coast of the U.S, leaving over 2 million people without power. On March 21, a power outage struck large swaths of Brazil, affecting tens of millions of people, especially in the country's northern and northeastern regions. The blackout was due to the failure of a transmission line near the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric station. On April 12, 870,000 customers in Puerto Rico lost power when a tree fell on a major
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Aquarium of the Americas


. The exhibits feature regions throughout North and South America. With 10,000 animals representing 530 species, noteworthy exhibits include: The aquarium is also home to the Entergy Giant Screen Theater, previously the Entergy IMAX theater, and exhibits for sea otters and African penguins In 2005, the facilities were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Though the structure survived the initial hurricane and was on high ground above the subsequent flooding of most of the city, electricity outages continued and the backup power generators were unable to fully operate the sophisticated life support systems needed
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Tawa Flat deviation


now be "switched out" to automatic double line operation when not required for local signalled movements. Tawa Flat was now only staffed during the day from Monday to Friday or when local control of the signalling was required. The signalling system on the deviation is powered by a 3.3 kV. power distribution fed from Kaiwharawhara that once extended as far north as McKays Crossing. A diesel standby power generator provides power to the signalling system during a general power outage so that diesel-powered trains may continue to operate on the line. The
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Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America


, affecting 1,376 people, of whom 80 were left homeless. Power outages and lack of water were reported. In the country, the hurricane caused 127 injuries, and a death toll reported between three and five. An initial news story reported 28 people missing offshore on three boats. Moderate wind gusts of up 46 mph (74 km/h) were reported in Tobago, which downed several trees and caused power outages in seven villages; power was cut to more than 30% of the island. Twenty villages on the
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


, the location on the east side of the storm where the winds are usually stronger in a northward-moving system due to its forward motion, its fast forward motion of about , and the warm air ahead of the storm allowed the high winds aloft to reach the surface easier. Many areas reported wind gusts up to hurricane force. It was one of the largest power outages caused by a natural disaster in the history of the Midwest, with around 3.7 million customers losing power (well over 8 million people), including
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


knocked out power to about 85,000 customers in Missouri. A woman was also struck and killed by a large tree limb in Ladue, Missouri, and two bodies of a man and a woman who presumably drowned were found in University City, Missouri, outside of St. Louis. Another drowning took place in floodwaters in Columbia, Missouri. The Louisville area declared a state of emergency due to major damage, and the Louisville International Airport was closed temporarily. A LG&E spokesperson said that this was the worst power outage in 30 years.
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


into Upstate New York late in the evening of September 14. Widespread damage, mostly to trees and power lines, was reported. In New York State, over 100,000 customers were reported without power. The hardest hit area was around Rochester, where over half of the outages were reported. In Ontario, Ike's remnants brought a record amount of rain on Sunday, September 14, in the Windsor region. It was closely following a slow-moving frontal system that had drenched the city the day before, dumping of rain
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Hurricane Arthur


Arthur in North Carolina, , was recorded at Kinston. High tides were reported along the coast, with a peak storm surge of at Oregon Inlet. Arthur caused power outages impacting at least 44,000 customers, of which 16,500 were in Carteret County; another 1,000 outages each occurred in Craven and New Hanover counties. As a result, Duke Energy deployed over 500 personnel to restore electrical service, while Tideland EMC handled more than 2,000 outages in Pamlico, Hyde and Craven counties. Strong winds toppled trees and power poles in Hyde County
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Pepco


the frequency and duration of power outages. Thousands of people lost power for as many as five days after only 5-8 inches of heavy wet snow. During the June 2012 North American derecho, more than half of the customers in Montgomery County, Maryland lost electric power. The company was criticized for being slow to restore power and for charging its customers for the power outage. The company's Benning Road Power Plant produced air pollution that negatively affected neighboring communities. In 2017, the company agreed to pay regulators $1.6
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Hurricane Florence


the mayor of Washington, D.C. declared a state of emergency. On September 10 and 11, the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia all issued mandatory evacuation orders for some of their coastal communities, predicting that emergency personnel would be unable to reach people there once the storm arrived. Despite making landfall as a weakened Category 1 hurricane, Florence still had enough wind speed to uproot trees and cause widespread power outages throughout the Carolinas. A ridge of high pressure over eastern North America stalled Florence's forward motion for
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


Texas helping crews there restore electricity to the millions who lost power because of Hurricane Ike. All the major school districts in Columbus were closed for at least two days. Agricultural damage was severe, with as much as 20% of the state's total corn crop lost as a result of winds blowing down corn stalks. Some fields were nearly flattened by the hurricane-force wind gusts. Tens of thousands of people also lost power in northwest Ohio where widespread outages and damage were reported in the Lima and Findlay areas as the
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Hurricane Isabel


the same day, the ferry between Hatteras and Ocracoke was reopened. In West Virginia, the power outages were restored within a week. Power workers throughout Canada assisted the severely affected power companies from Maryland to North Carolina. Hydro-Québec sent 25 teams to the New York City area to assist in power outages. Because of widespread property damage and extensive death tolls the name "Isabel" was retired after the 2003 season, and will not be used for future Atlantic hurricanes. It was replaced by "Ida" for the
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Hurricane Ike


, over 300,000 customers were without power — the worst power outage in the utility's history. The Cincinnati metropolitan area was hard hit as well, with over 927,000 customers losing power in that region. A Duke Energy spokesperson said "We have never seen anything like this. Never. We’re talking about 90 percent of our customers without power." There were so many power outages and so few workers available Duke Energy was thinking of sending workers from their base in Charlotte, North Carolina. Many homes and business were without
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List of Static Shock characters


Fool. Slipstream was affected by the Big Bang and given incredible wind powers. After his fight with Static where Static defeated him after having to recharge, he was rarely heard from again, but he was seen in "Power Outage" among the de-powered Bang Babies who were following an offer from Ebon to have their powers restored. After both of their parents died and they were taken in by their grandmother, Boom and his younger sister, Mirage (Miranda), were exposed to a spill of the Big Bang
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March 1989 geomagnetic storm


James Bay network went offline in less than 90 seconds, giving Quebec its second massive power outage in 11 months. The power failure lasted nine hours and forced the company to implement various mitigation strategies, including raising the trip level, installing series compensation on ultra high voltage lines and upgrading various monitoring and operational procedures. Other utilities in North America and Northern Europe and elsewhere implemented programs to reduce the risks associated with geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). One of the few publicly reported military operations impacted was the Australian Army component of
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Heat wave of 2006 derecho series


northeast part of the province and that 90% of the city of North Bay lost power. All of Manitoulin Island was without power. Many others areas including the Sudbury area and the Upper Ottawa Valley towns of Pembroke, Mattawa and Petawawa also had major power outages. Major outages were reported in several areas in Quebec particularly in the Outaouais region. Hydro-Québec estimated that 145,000 of their customers lost power but separate storms in the areas around Rouyn-Noranda, Val-d'Or, Montreal, Trois-Rivières and Quebec City
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June 2012 North American derecho


due to widespread power loss, damages, and the ongoing heat wave. The storm was more damaging to the power grid and more severe in terms of wind gusts than Tropical Storm Ike, which hit the area in September 2008 with sustained winds and gusts after slightly re-intensifying over Indiana, making it both the largest power outage and the largest power outage not related to a hurricane in AEP Ohio history. Wind gusts with this derecho were closer to , and, though of a significantly shorter duration, caused more damage to
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Global storm activity of 2010


did not have power on Monday. Some phone systems have also experienced brief telecommunications outages. Kristi Truman, director of the North Dakota Office of Emergency Management was concerned about failing water and power supplies. Power outages began with a storm in December knocking down around 5,000 power poles, and has been accelerated by an ice storm on January 22 knocking down another 3,000 power lines on the reservation. Among the tribes of South Dakota said to be suffering from the multiple storms are the Cheyenne River Sioux, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Flandreau
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List of major power outages


major power failure which affected seven north Indian states, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan. It was the preludium for the outage at the following day. On July 31, the 2012 India blackout left half of India without electricity supply. So far [2018] it is being called the biggest power failure in history. This affected hundreds of trains, hundreds of thousands of households and other establishments as the grid that connects generating stations with customers collapsed for the
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority


, during the governorship of Rexford G. Tugwell. Government-owned, PRWRA unified diverse regional and local electric power companies into one unified electric grid. Throughout its history, PREPA has suffered several outages that have left the entire island of Puerto Rico without power. One of these islandwide outages occurred on September 20, 2016 due to a fire at one of PREPA's plants—Central Aguirre. All of Puerto Rico was without power for three days. At the first days of September 2017, the eye of Hurricane Irma passed north
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a failure in the substation of Hamitabat Gas Fueled Combined Cycle PP (in Lüleburgaz city of Kırklareli province) caused a power outage in ( 154kV interconnected power transmission grid of the region. Affected places included Tekirdağ, Edirne, Kırklareli provinces and Silivri city of İstanbul. Affected population was about 1.5 million citizens. Power was restored gradually after an hour and at 00.24 all the region had been electrified. On December 22, the December 2013 North American storm complex, covering an area from Ontario to as far east as the maritime provinces
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June 2012 North American derecho


central, and southwestern Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware and southern New Jersey. In all the mentioned areas, many trees uprooted or snapped, roofs became damaged, tents deployed to sell fireworks leading up to the 4th of July Holiday collapsed, and power outages were extensive, with over 4.2 million customers losing power as a result. Over 1 million customers lost power in Ohio, with power outages widespread across roughly two-thirds of the state. Saturday afternoon, Ohio Governor John Kasich declared a state of emergency
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June 2012 North American derecho


. All but two of the state's 55 counties sustained some damage or loss of power. At peak, more than half of the state's customers were without power. Around 70 high voltage power lines were downed. The derecho's aftermath was arguably more difficult in West Virginia than anywhere else. Power restoration was very slow and outages extremely long, as a result of the sparse and scattered population, mountainous terrain, difficult conditions in extreme heat and need for crews over a large area; in many cases the outages lasted
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Droughts in California


the state's northern water reserves, despite widespread power outages and erosional damage in the wake of the deluge. Among the casualties of the rain was 1,000 year-old Pioneer Cabin Tree in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, which toppled on January 8, 2017. The winter of 2016–17 turned out to be the wettest on record in Northern California, surpassing the previous record set in 1982–83. Floodwaters caused severe damage to Oroville Dam in early February, prompting the temporary evacuation of nearly 200,000 people north of Sacramento. In response to
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General Electric


-renewable methane-based gases, employ more than 4,900 people globally and have created more than 10,000 supporting jobs. GE Energy and Orion New Zealand Limited (Orion) have announced implementation of the first phase of a GE network management system to help improve power reliability for customers. GE's ENMAC Distribution Management System is the foundation of Orion's initiative. The system of smart grid technologies will significantly improve the network company's ability to manage big network emergencies and help it to restore power faster when outages occur. In June 2018
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Lotus Europa


Renault transaxle. The twin-cam engine first appeared in the Europa engine bay in mid-1971 (in Europe) and early 1972 (in North America). In North America, both the (early) 1972 Twin Cam version and (late) 1972-1974 Twin Cam "Special" versions were rated at 113 bhp in Federalized Form. When Renault released their most powerful 16 TX model in 1973, it included a strengthened 5-speed transmission. Lotus quickly offered this gearbox as an option in the Europa, along with their Big
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December 2013 North American storm complex


Missouri city of Springfield, more than 800 residents reported power outages. Utility crews from City Water, Light & Power initiated power recovery efforts. In Southwest and Central Oklahoma, many areas received over of ice accumulation. Some locations received over ; in some localized areas of ice fell. Isolated power outages occurred, multiple trees and tree limbs were broken or pulled down by the weight of the ice. It was reported that 27 deaths were related to the storm. Following the ice storm, thousands of tree branches littered the streets
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2011 Southwest blackout


customers in Mexico. The outage was the result of 23 distinct events that occurred on 5 separate power grids in a span of 11 minutes. Federal, regional and local officials investigated what happened and why the outage cascaded the way it did. APS's North Gila Substation reported power loss at 3:27 pm PDT. Within seconds a portion of a Mexico power plant shut down, but there was no indication that Arizona impacted Mexico. Units 2 and 3 at SONGS automatically tripped offline due to a "grid disturbance" which initiated the
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December 2013 North American storm complex


solve all the problems associated with weather-related power outages. Funding of was requested for provincial and federal aid by the Toronto City Council. It was estimated that damage to the city of Brampton cost $51 million; in Mississauga it was $25 million . Several Manitoba Hydro utility workers assisted in the recovery efforts. In Quebec on 22 December, Hydro-Quebec reported 9,500 clients were affected by power outages from the storm. Five days later, 4,000 were without power, most of whom were in the Eastern Townships of
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Power outage


alarm systems as well as computers. To protect computer systems against this, the use of an uninterruptible power supply or 'UPS' can provide a constant flow of electricity if a primary power supply becomes unavailable for a short period of time. To protect against surges (events where voltages increase for a few seconds), which can damage hardware when power is restored, a special device called a surge protector that absorbs the excess voltage can be used. Restoring power after a wide-area outage can be difficult, as power
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Effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America


. Ohio was hit extremely hard by the storm. Wind gusts of over were recorded in Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, which is equivalent to sustained wind levels found in a Category 1 hurricane. The remnants of Ike caused a total of 2.6 million power outages in the state of Ohio, 330,000 of them for over a week. A state of emergency was declared on Monday by Governor Ted Strickland. On September 16 and 17, Governor Strickland took a tour of the heavily damaged areas, particularly in Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton
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Hurricane Gloria


This left over 4 million people without power, including the worst power outage in Connecticut history related to a natural disaster. The extended power outage on Long Island, affecting 1.5 million people at some point, caused the Long Island Lighting Company to be shut down and be replaced with a public company. Fallen trees caused six of the storm's fourteen deaths. In North Carolina, high waves damaged many homes along the Outer Banks and caused heavy beach erosion. High waves also damaged piers, boats, and docks throughout the Mid
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List of major power outages


On September 24, nine million people in north and central Chile were affected by the 2011 Chile blackout which lasted for at least two hours. In late October, a snowstorm along the East Coast of the US caused over two million power outages. Some residents of Connecticut and western Massachusetts were without electricity for over 11 days. On January 14–April 27, a 380 kV transformer failure in Bursa Natural Gas Fueled Combined Cycle PP in Turkey, was accused of voltage deviations in the interconnected power grid that resulted in a blackout. Another
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada


Canada and the first Canadian Big Sister agency formed in Toronto . Closely afterwards, in 1913, the first Canadian Big Brother program began in Toronto. Both groups continued to work independently until 1977, when Big Brothers of America and Big Sisters International (in America) joined forces and became Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. In 2001 a similar merger occurred between the two Canadian organizations and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada was formed. Interest grew from outside North America, spurring the formation of Big Brothers Big Sisters International to help
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Electrical grid


consumers and potentially enabling more efficient electricity markets and redundant generation. Interconnection maps are shown of North America (right) and Europe (below left). A large failure in one part of the grid - unless quickly compensated for - can cause current to re-route itself to flow from the remaining generators to consumers over transmission lines of insufficient capacity, causing further failures. One downside to a widely connected grid is thus the possibility of cascading failure and widespread power outage. A central authority is usually designated to facilitate communication and
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Global storm activity of 2006


complex tracked across the entire northern and central parts of North America in the last week of November. It produced a variety of severe weather, including heavy snow, rain, freezing rain, sleet, high winds, extreme cold, a serial derecho and several tornadoes. The most severe impacts were in the Midwest where several fatalities were reported and extensive power outages occurred. A severe, but localized, lake effect snow event took place in parts of the Great Lakes region. The hardest hit community was London, Ontario, where
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List of major power outages


, many of whom were without power for a week. On September 21, 2016, a full power system collapse occurred on the island of Puerto Rico affected its 3.5 million inhabitants. The power outage, popularly referred to as the "Apagón" (translated as "super outage") has been labeled as the largest in Puerto Rico not caused by an atmospheric event. The outage occurred after two transmission lines, with power running up to 230 kV, failed. On September 28, the 2016 South Australian blackout affected the
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List of major power outages


over 200,000 people impacted at the height of the outages and about two-thirds of those without power for periods lasting from half a day to several days. Other urban areas, such as Pittsburgh, were also affected. On March 14, the March 2010 Chile blackout left roughly 15 million people, about 90% of the population of Chile, without power when a major transformer failed in southern Chile. Power began to be restored within a few hours, and almost all of the country had power by the following day.
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Hurricane Donna


to Georgia. Wind gusts of along the coast felled trees and tree limbs, resulting in electrical and telephone-service outages. In Brunswick, GA, a power outage at the power plant caused a minor explosion. Heavy rainfall temporarily flooded some streets in the city. Further north in South Carolina, gale-force winds were reported along the coast, but caused little damage. A tornado spawned in the Charleston area destroyed several houses and severely damaged a number of others, and injured a few people by flying glass. Damage
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Cyclone Emma (2008)


out a hundred interventions throughout the night, mainly due to trees being brought down by the wind. The gusts quickly move towards Bavaria, causing a power outage for nearly 150 000 people. In the wake of the storm, the material damage is of considerable importance, with among other damages, trees were brought down, urban infrastructure and transport is damaged, and the power outage, which makes the authorities expect the financial toll of the storm to go up to "tens of millions euro in damage". In North Rhine
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2010 Iceland power outages


The Iceland Power outages 2010 was a massive, widespread power outage that occurred nationwide in Iceland, on Wednesday, September 1 to 21, 2010, at approximately 21:00 UTC. At the time, it was one of the most widespread electrical outages in Icelandic history. The three largest aluminium smelters in Iceland were hit by the outage, leaving Century Aluminum Grundartangi and Rio Tinto Alcan Straumsvík totally off-grid. The third aluminium smelter, Alcoa Fjarðarál, was forced to reduce its operations to a bare minimum. Hot water became immediately
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Tropical Storm Flossie (2013)


scheduled water outage in Hanalei and Waipa was postponed due to the storm. While still offshore, Flossie brought high surf to much of the state. Upon passing narrowly by the island, gusty winds downed trees and power lines: Kahului reported a peak wind gust of during Flossie. More than 10,000 residences were without electricity across the state, with most outages concentrated in Maui and Big Island. Heavy rains impacted several islands; rainfall rates of an hour were recorded in Haleakalā. Along the eastern side of Maui, a total of
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.500 S&W Magnum


for hunting heavier African dangerous game. As a hunting cartridge the .500 S&W Magnum has been found to be effective against elephant and African buffalo as long as ranges are kept within reasonable limits. Bullet selection is extremely important when hunting thick-skinned dangerous game. Smith & Wesson bills the Model 500 revolver as "A Hunting Handgun For Any Game Animal Walking". Big Horn Armory bills its Model 89 rifle as the most powerful lever gun currently made. In North America, it serves the purpose of hunting all North American big
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January 2008 North American storm complex


eastern California and western Nevada due to poor visibility and a 17-vehicle pile-up. Bay Area Rapid Transit was also disrupted with significant delays to service and was even interrupted between San Francisco and Daly City briefly due to fallen trees on the network's tracks. Strong winds knocked power lines down causing power outages for 1.2 million Californians while several outages were reported in Washington and Oregon. About of California power lines were damaged by the storm. The storm closed ski resorts, toppled trees, and created mudslides. Highways from Sacramento to
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Exit sign


long as mains power remained on. As battery-backup systems became smaller and more efficient, some exit signs began to use a dual-power system. Under normal conditions, the exit sign was lit by mains power and the battery was in a charged state. In the event of a power outage, the battery would supply power to light the sign. Early battery-backup systems were big, heavy, and costly. Modern systems are lightweight, can be installed virtually anywhere, and are integrated into the fixture,
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Electrical grid


in voltage in an electrical power supply system. Intentional brownouts are used for load reduction in an emergency. The reduction lasts for minutes or hours, as opposed to short-term voltage sag (or dip). The term brownout comes from the dimming experienced by incandescent lighting when the voltage sags. A voltage reduction may be an effect of disruption of an electrical grid, or may occasionally be imposed in an effort to reduce load and prevent a power outage, known as a blackout. A "power outage" (also
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Hurricane Bertha (1996)


scattered power outages across the area. Further north, dirt roads around Ludlow were washed out and a mudslide was reported on Route 14 near Royalton. In New Hampshire, precipitation totals included in Derry, in Milfold, in East Derry, in Manchester, and in Jaffrey. A combination of gusty winds and rainfall caused scattered power outages. Impact from the storm in Maine was minor. A total of of rain fell in Poland, while some areas experienced more than . Some ditch erosion, inundation of low-lying areas,
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2016 South Australian blackout


the National Electricity Market via two interconnectors to Victoria. These are the Heywood interconnector (recently upgraded to 650 MW at 275 kV) in the southeast of the state and the Murraylink (220 MW at 150 kV) HVDC further north, connecting Berri to Red Cliffs in Victoria. The Heywood interconnector had been down for upgrade earlier in the year, and was initially blamed for the widespread outage. The weather had resulted in localised power outages throughout the day and by around 3:50 p.m. local time, almost the entire state power grid
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Hurricane Katrina effects by region


, and declared a statewide state of emergency. North Carolina avoided damage from the storm, but gas prices rose in response to interrupted supply lines. Local hospitals received some regional evacuees. In Ohio, some flooding and power outages were reported (including about 2,500 outages in the easternmost part of the state alone), and several areas were evacuated throughout the state. One hospital in Dennison had to be evacuated as it lost power and its generator failed, but it was restored later in the day. Two deaths were blamed on
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June 2012 North American derecho


longer than two weeks. The American Red Cross shipped tens of thousands of meals to the state, along with large quantities of water to residents in entire communities that were isolated as a result. Across Pennsylvania, 32,500 customers lost power. Storm debris delayed trains at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. About 1 million customers lost power in Virginia, which was the largest outage in the state's history not related to a hurricane, and third largest outage including hurricanes, after Hurricane Isabel in 2003 and Hurricane Irene in 2011. The
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List of major power outages


This is a list of notable wide-scale power outages. To be included, the power outage must conform to "all" of the following criteria: In other words: On the evening of November 9, the Northeast blackout of 1965 affected portions of seven northeastern states in the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada. On August 5, a 50-mile stretch of Florida's gold coast was hit with a general power failure after an explosion at the Cutler Ridge facility. The outage affected more than 2 million people
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Hurricane Irene


100,000 customers would still be without power by midnight the next day. Crews had come from many distant places in North America, including British Columbia, to help the utility's own crews. The continued outages also meant that in rural areas with private wells, residents still lacked running water a week after the storm. In Massachusetts, damage was greatest in the Hill Towns and Western Massachusetts as the eye of the storm tracked westward, toward Albany, New York. High winds toppled trees and heavy rain caused widespread flooding of Connecticut
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List of major power outages


the Philippines suffered power outages because several transmission lines had tripped-out, resulting in the isolation of Sta. Rita, San Lorenzo, Calaca, Ilijan, Quezon Power Plant Philippines, Ltd (QPPL). On 21 May, the 2013 southern Thailand blackout resulted when a power failure affected fourteen provinces (out of 76) in Thailand, for four hours, starting at 7:00 pm local time. On May 22, the 2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout occurred. The careless movement of a truck deployed to plant trees in
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BlackBerry


operated by Wireless Giant at airports in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Philadelphia, Houston, and Newark, but several have been slated for closing. On September 23, 2015, Blackberry opened its first pop-up store in Frankfurt, Germany. At various stages of the company's history it suffered occasional service outages that have been referred to in the media as "embarrassing". In 2005 the company suffered a relatively short-term outage reportedly among a small handful of North America carriers.
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BlackBerry Limited


or her suggestions and complaints on the current state and future direction of the company. On October 10, 2011, RIM experienced one of the worst service outages in the company's history. Tens of millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America were unable to receive or send emails and BBM messages through their phones. The outage was caused as a result of a core switch failure, "A transition to a back-up switch did not function as tested, causing a large backlog
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List of major power outages


all cities on the Greek part of the island. The outage was caused by an explosion next to the Vassilikos power plant, shutting down the plant. On July 23, the failure of a glass insulator caused an outage of most of Northern Saskatchewan for about four hours. On the morning of July 11, the Chicago area was hit by a large derecho which disrupted power to over 850,000, according to ComEd. On August 27–28, Hurricane Irene caused over five million power outages. On September 8–9, the 2011 Southwest blackout
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Typhoon Gay (1992)


Saipan to its north, the storm surge destroyed one house and threatened the foundation of several others; twelve families required rescue by emergency workers. The storm caused power outages, and one house sustained fire damage due to candles and kerosene lamps. While Gay was becoming extratropical, Okinawa Prefecture experienced heavy rainfall. The highest total was , and one station recorded in a ten-minute period. The rains flooded four buildings and inundated crop fields. Rough winds with gusts peaking at caused isolated power outages and the cancellation of two airline
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Power system simulation


-power allocation, load-flow calculation also supports the planning engineer in the investigation of the most economical operation mode of the network. When changing over from single and/or multi-phase infeed low-voltage meshed networks to isolated networks, load-flow calculation is essential for operational and economical reasons. Load-flow calculation is also the basis of all further network studies, such as motor start-up or investigation of scheduled or unscheduled outages of equipment within the outage simulation. Especially when investigating motor start-up, the
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2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout


The 2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout was a power outage in the southern region of Vietnam on 22 May 2013, affecting millions of people. Power went off at around 14:14 pm (UTC+7) on 22 May 2013. A careless move of a truck deployed to plant trees in New Bình Dương City urban area is the direct cause for the massive power outage in the southern region of Vietnam. When moving a tree on Wednesday afternoon, the truck let the tree bump onto a line in the national power grid (500 KV
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Cyclone Amara


. On December 21, Mauritius Meteorological Services issued their highest applicable cyclone warning, a "Class 4 warning," for Rodrigues. Rodrigues began to experience the effects of Amara on December 20, when strong gusts caused by the tropical cyclone swept across the island. These initial winds uprooted trees and toppled utility poles, resulting in power outages. At the height of power outages, over 12,000 households were without power, primarily in Port Sud-Est, Mount Lubin, and Rivière-Cocos. By the afternoon of December 22
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Electricity sector in the Philippines


(ILP) was recommended for use in the Luzon power grid instead. The ILP essentially enrolls large establishments, including government owned and controlled corporations, with their own generators to voluntarily disconnect from the main grid and switch to their generators instead when a power outage was predicted. Their rationale was that a power outage would cause these establishments to run on generators anyway so it is more beneficial for them to run their generators in an organized fashion. According to several articles such as from Rappler, the Malampaya gas facility shortage is responsible
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