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Greater Houston. From the evening of May 16, 2024, to midday May 17, 2024, a derecho struck the Gulf Coast of the United States from Southeast Texas to Florida, causing widespread damage, particularly in the city of Houston and surrounding metropolitan area. [7] At least seven people were killed by the storms, dubbed the Houston derecho by the ...
The dark patches in the latter image depict areas left without electricity. In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, [6] 13–17, [7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in ...
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.
May 21, 2024 at 5:05 PM. HOUSTON (AP) — As the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured the Houston area on Tuesday to assess the damage from last week’s deadly storms, local ...
Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston, an official warned Friday, after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city, knocking out electricity to nearly 1 million ...
More than 900,000 homes and businesses lost power in Houston’s Harris County during the peak of the storm’s violent winds, and nearly 600,000 remained in the dark Friday evening, according to ...
The Houston Independent School District canceled classes Friday for some 400,000 students at all its 274 campuses. According to PowerOutage.us, as of Friday evening, 588,000 homes and businesses ...
The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (also known as STP, STPEGS, South Texas Project ), is a nuclear power station southwest of Bay City, Texas, United States. STP occupies a 12,200-acre (4,900 ha) site west of the Colorado River about 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Houston. It consists of two Westinghouse Pressurized Water ...