Category Power Outage Alert

Lightning strike cuts power to more than 15,000 residents in Weber County, Utah, USA

“A lot of our outages are due to weather but rarely do they get that big,” Murphy said A power outage affecting more than 15,400 residents struck parts of Weber County overnight. Power was lost in parts of Ogden, South…

Landslides claim eight‚ four missing feared drowned in Nepal

As many as eight persons, including six minors, were killed due to landslides triggered by incessant downpour across the country today.Four persons, including three children, were killed when a house was buried in a landslide in Jajarkot, while three persons…

Heavy rain causing flooding and power outages in Connecticut, USA

Streets are flooded in parts of Connecticut and nearly 1,700 power outages are reported as heavy rain moves across southern New England. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Wednesday morning for shoreline areas including New Haven, Middlesex and…

Nationwide blackout, power restored and lost again – explosion at Marsa distribution centre in Malta

A fault in one of the generating units of Delimara power station caused a nationwide power cut this evening. An explosion took place at the same time at a distribution centre near Marsa Industrial Estate. No one was injured but…

Super Typhoon Halong Leaves Path of Destruction In Sakhalin, Russia

Since making landfall in Russia’s Far East Monday night, Typhoon Halong claimed one life and caused eight serious injuries, as well as dozens of minor ones. The death and injuries were recorded in Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island. The victim died from electrical shock caused by wires damaged in the storm,…

Severe hailstorm hammers City in Canada

This is a hailstorm not a snowstorm!!!! The hailstones, described as “golf ball size,” created a path of destruction, leaving residents to pick up the mess the day after. Resident Karen Till said she was at home during the frightening…

Record breaking heatwave followed by severe storms in Seattle, USA

The temperature in Seattle on Monday was much hotter than normal for this time of year. Twenty degrees hotter, to be exact. Monday afternoon, meteorologists recorded a record-breaking 96 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport where Seattle’s official weather data is…

Severe Hailstorms and heavy rains wreak havoc in Malaysia

Ugly aftermath: Uprooted trees damaged a car in Segamat after an hour-long freak storm wreaked havoc in the district Heavy rains and hailstorms hit several areas nationwide, damaging properties as well as causing floods and blackouts. A mid-afternoon thunderstorm here…

Major landslide strikes again; Five washed away in the heavy rain in Uttarakhand, India

Five people including two children were killed on Monday in rain-related incidents in Uttarakhand which received light to medium rainfall in its various parts, resulting in landslides that also obstructed national highways in the hill state. Four persons including two…

Environment Agency issues two flood alerts for Kent after remains of Hurricane Bertha leaves trail of chaos across the UK

Two flood alerts are in force for Kent today after nearly a month’s worth of rain fell in just a few hours. Winds of more than 40mph and heavy rain from the remains of hurricane Bertha battered the county yesterday.…