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March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
Deaths. Almost 100. The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [ 1 ] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 ...
Extensive power outages occurred in both Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. Almost 350,000 homes and businesses were without electricity, mainly due to heavy winds knocking down trees, which in turn knocked out many power lines . [ 27 ]
Report power outages and downed wires by calling 1-877-434-4100. Public Service Enterprise Group Long Island power outage map. Use Public Service Enterprise Group Long Island's outage map here ...
A map of the states and provinces affected. Not all areas within the political boundaries were blacked out. The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in ...
On Long Island, thousands were left without power for over a week, [10] until the last outages were restored two weeks after the storm on October 8. The long duration without electricity forced hundreds of schools to close, extended train times by six hours due to lack of powered crossings, and price gouging on food, ice, and generators.
On Long Island, LIPA said it still had about 532,000 customers without power, down from more than 900,000. [38] In the evening of November 2, LIPA said they expected to cut the number of customer outages by 150,000 by November 4.
The 2006 Queens blackout was a series of power outages that affected the northwest section of the New York City borough Queens in July 2006. The blackout primarily affected the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside. The outages affected 174,000 people, caused business losses of tens of millions of dollars, [1 ...