A large-scale outage on Wednesday affected residents’ ability to call the 911 emergency number in parts of Nebraska and Texas, the entire state of South Dakota and Las Vegas, according to local authorities. In Las Vegas, calls to 911 on landline phones and mobile phones were not connecting for about two hours before service was…
An outbreak of severe weather swept the South on Thursday, bringing strong winds and possible tornadoes to parts of Alabama and Mississippi, damaging homes and leaving thousands without power. The threat of severe weather and tornadoes was expected to continue into the night, officials said. Video shared online by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency showed…
CHICAGO — A frigid winter storm pummeled the United States for a third day on Friday, leaving more than one million homes and businesses without power, causing crashes and epic delays on ice-slicked expressways and stranding thousands of travelers at airports just before Christmas. Most of the country shared in the misery whether from snow,…
As a sprawling winter storm hits the United States and Canada, some people are moving up their Christmas dinner preparations, racing against potential power outages. By late Friday morning, more than 1.5 million customers in the United States and Canada were without electricity, according to poweroutage.us, which compiles data from utilities. And with the storm…