Earth Watch Report – Power Outage
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Scott Becker shovels the sidewalks of businesses along Main Street in downtown Evansville, Ind., on Dec. 27, 2012. (Associated Press/The Evansville Courier & Press)
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| 28.12.2012 | Power Outage | USA | State of Arkansas, [Arkansas-wide] |  |
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Power Outage in USA on Friday, 28 December, 2012 at 14:29 (02:29 PM) UTC.
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| As a the muted ends of a powerful winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people plodded through the Northeast, many in Arkansas were seeking warmth and shelter against the cold prospect of life without electricity into the new year. A Christmas Day blizzard dumped more than 15 inches of snow on the state, causing widespread damage to power lines and cutting electricity to more than 200,000 customers. With the bleak word from the state’s largest utility that the lights could be out until after the start of the new year, many residents who awoke snowbound on Wednesday were jamming the city’s hotel rooms by Thursday night. After the storm’s peak early Wednesday, homes and businesses from border-to-border had lost power. Johnson, and several other people, said they were hoping the power would be back on Wednesday after spending Christmas night in the dark. Then the president of the state’s largest utility announced that some of the outages would persist to New Year’s Day or beyond. Little Rock was among the cities hardest hit. The storm system responsible for the misery roared out of the Rockies early Tuesday with blizzard conditions in southwestern Oklahoma and tornadoes along the Gulf Coast. After sweeping across Arkansas, giving Little Rock its first white Christmas since 1926, it rolled into the Midwest and Northeast before moving on to Canada. Up to 20 inches of snow fell in the Adirondacks of New York, and 7.5 inches fell in Indianapolis, which was its greatest snowfall in four years. Concord, N.H., got 4-6 inches of snow. |
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Keep your generators handy!
As the weather extremes continue it is always a smart thing to have a generator in case of an outage. Especially when there are small children or medication that requires refrigeration.