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  • September 2008

    • New Orleans Residents Head Home

      Washington Post  |  Sep 3, 08 6:25 PM CDT

      New Orleans Residents Head Home

      (Newser) - All Hurricane Gustav evacuees are being allowed back into New Orleans after Mayor Ray Nagin abandoned a more drawn-out reentry plan, the Washington Post reports. Those returning had trouble locating supplies, and officials warned power outages would add to difficulties. "We'd like to say welcome back, but it's not the way we'd like to do it," one local official said. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Hurricane Katrina  • New Orleans  • Louisiana  • Hurricane Gustav  • evacuation  • power outage  • hurricane recovery

  • July 2008

    • Calif. Pol Aims to Burst Balloons

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 15, 08 8:55 AM CDT

      Calif. Pol Aims to Burst Balloons

      (Newser) - A California lawmaker is pushing to ban helium-filled foil balloons, blaming the globe-shaped menaces for flying into power lines and causing more than 800 blackouts in the state last year. The bill easily passed the state's senate, but it’s facing an uproar from balloon artists and balloon lovers alike as it awaits an assembly vote, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      California  • Arnold Schwarzenegger  • power outage  • blackout  • helium

  • May 2008

    • Cat and Mouse Cause Massive Albanian Blackout

      Reuters  |  May 16, 08 6:42 PM CDT

      Cat and Mouse Cause Massive Albanian Blackout

      (Newser) - It’s an unlikely reason for a power outage: A cat and mouse engaged in a chase accidentally ran into high-voltage cables at the main power station in Tirana, frying themselves and causing a 72-hour blackout in some districts of the Albanian capital, Reuters reports. Outages are relatively common in Albania, but they usually result from the Soviet-era infrastructure, not the law of the jungle. More »

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      cat  • weird  • power outage  • Albania  • blackout  • Tirana  • mouse

    • Israeli Fuel Delay Shuts Gaza's Lone Power Plant

      Haaretz (Israel)  |  May 12, 08 3:41 AM CDT

      Israeli Fuel Delay Shuts Gaza's Lone Power Plant

      (Newser) - A fuel delivery delay from Israel has shut Gaza’s only power plant since Saturday, cutting electricity to about a third of the Strip’s residents, Ha’aretz reports. The shortage shut down area bakeries yesterday. More »

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      Israel  • Palestine  • Gaza Strip  • Arab Israeli conflict  • fuel  • power outage  • power plant

  • March 2008

    • 2 Dead on Second Day of Ga. Storms

      CNN  |  Mar 15, 08 8:02 PM CDT

      2 Dead on Second Day of Ga. Storms

      (Newser) - Waves of thunderstorms clobbered the stunned city of Atlanta today, killing two and wounding at least four others, CNN reports. The storms leveled more than 20 homes and downed power lines, leaving 40,000 people—including 10,000 in Atlanta—without power in northern Georgia. Authorities are warning people to stay home as a storm watch continues overnight. More »

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      Atlanta  • tornado  • power outage  • property damage  • Georgia Dome  • thunderstorms

    • Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

      Miami Herald  |  Mar 1, 08 10:31 AM CST

      Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

      (Newser) - One engineer's blunder shut off the power in Florida Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. Florida Light & Power says a field engineer diagnosing a faulty switch disabled two levels of safety backups—against company policy—as he worked. In a bit of extremely unfortunate timing, a fault then occurred that knocked out dozens of transmission lines and substations, including one that served the Turkey Point nuclear reactor. More »

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      Florida  • electricity  • power outage  • blackout  • engineers  • utility companies  • mistake

  • February 2008

    • Power Back On in South Florida

      Miami Herald  |  Feb 27, 08 5:15 AM CST

      Power Back On in South Florida

      (Newser) - Floridians saw the light again last evening when power was restored after equipment failure at a single Miami substation caused a blackout which dominoed across South Florida, leaving millions without power for several hours. Most homes were back on the grid before nightfall, but why a single substation's failure could have such a devastating impact remains a mystery, reports the Miami Herald . More »

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      Miami  • power outage  • blackout  • South Florida

    • Power Returns to Millions in Fla.

      St. Petersburg Times  |  Feb 26, 08 4:40 PM CST

      Power Returns to Millions in Fla.

      (Newser) - A blackout that cut off millions of Florida residents today is ending, authorities say, but they disagree on the cause. Florida Power & Light blames a substation west of Miami for sparking the outage, and a state emergency office says a station south of Miami suffered a mechanical failure that triggered two nuclear plants to go offline, the St. Petersburg Times reports. More »

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      Florida  • Miami  • power outage  • nuclear power plants  • traffic accident  • blackout

    • Huge Power Outage Strikes Fla.

      Miami Herald  |  Feb 26, 08 2:30 PM CST

      Huge Power Outage Strikes Fla.

      (Newser) - Power outages concentrated in the Miami area struck across Florida just after 1 this afternoon, the Miami Herald reports. The lights started coming back on within 2 hours, but the cause of the blackout still wasn't known. Both nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point plant south of Miami automatically shut down, blacking out hundreds of thousands of customers, "but we do not know why at this point," said an NRC spokesman. More »

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      Florida  • power outage

  • January 2008

    • Cybercrooks Hacking Power Grid

      PC World  |  Jan 20, 08 8:38 AM CST

      Cybercrooks Hacking Power Grid

      (Newser) - Foreign extortionists have managed to hack into US power grids and shut them down, PC World reports, citing a CIA analyst speaking at a security conference this week. "In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks, but all involved intrusions through the Internet," the analyst said. More »

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      Internet  • CIA  • hackers  • electricity  • cybercrime  • power outage  • extortion  • power grid

  • December 2007

    • Blizzard Death Toll Hits 22

      Associated Press  |  Dec 24, 07 3:38 PM CST

      Blizzard Death Toll Hits 22

      (Newser) - The death toll from a winter storm that pummeled the upper Midwest rose to 22 today, the AP reports. The worst of the storm is over for the region, but it left behind icy highways and downed power lines, especially in Wisconsin, Illinois, and upper Michigan. Remnants of the storm system could dump heavy snow snow on western New York tonight, forecasters said. More »

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      Texas  • Minnesota  • Wisconsin  • Kansas  • power outage  • snowstorm  • National Weather Service  • fatalities  • Great Lakes  • wind

    • Washington Declares Storm Emergency

      Seattle Times  |  Dec 4, 07 4:45 AM CST

      Washington Declares Storm Emergency

      (Newser) - A state of emergency was declared yesterday for the western part of Washington, the area hardest hit by severe storms in the last few days. Massive flooding, heavy rains and high winds have killed at least two people, caused a three-day shutdown of an interstate and other major highways, and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of residents. More »

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      storm  • flooding  • Seattle  • Washington  • Oregon  • state of emergency  • power outage

  • September 2007

    • Breaking SoCal Heat Wave Leaves 27 Dead

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 6, 07 4:07 AM CDT

      Breaking SoCal Heat Wave Leaves 27 Dead

      (Newser) - Southern California's heat wave finally seems to be breaking after killing at least 27 people in crushing temperatures. The deaths include an elderly couple who told neighbors they were turning off their air conditioning to save money. Several victims died while illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in searing heat. More »

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      California  • elderly  • electricity  • Southern California  • heat wave  • power outage

    • Triple-Digit Temps Zap Power for 23,000 in SoCal

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 3, 07 3:05 PM CDT

      Triple-Digit Temps Zap Power for 23,000 in SoCal

      (Newser) - Continued triple-digit temperatures across Southern California fried transformers as everyone turned on the AC, knocking out power across the region. The LA Times reports  21,000 homes were still waiting for power last night, and Southern California Edison was scrambling to keep up. "We need is a break in the weather to slow the pace in calls," a spokesman said. More »

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      California  • Southern California  • heat wave  • power outage  • heat  • temperature

  • August 2007

    • Gov. Blames Poor Drainage for NYC Mess

      New York Times  |  Aug 8, 07 8:50 PM CDT

      Gov. Blames Poor Drainage for NYC Mess

      (Newser) - An inadequate drainage system and little advance warning left New York City transit vulnerable to this morning's powerful storm, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said. The New York Times reports that today's transit meltdown, which disabled or delayed every city subway line and snarled the morning commute, was the third such debilitating event in seven months. More »

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      New York City  • Eliot Spitzer  • weather  • flood  • power outage  • subway  • transit

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