Power Outages Top 500,000 As Severe Weather Batters Several States

Story by Jan Wesner Childs, August 7, 2023

"M​ore than 500,000 homes and businesses were without power across five states as severe storms packing damaging winds and hail battered the South and moved east.

"Downed trees and roof damage were reported in several areas, including parts of #Tennessee and #Mississippi.

"H​ail crashed down in several areas, including around #Huntington, #WestVirginia.

"T​op power outage numbers as of about 6:15 p.m. eastern time, according to PowerOutage.us: more than 130,000 in #NorthCarolina; about 120,000 in #Georgia; more than 100,000 in #Maryland; about 97,000 in #Tennessee; and 73,000 in #Virginia.

"The severe weather was part of an outbreak of severe storms in the East and South expected to produce widespread damaging wind gusts, hail, flooding rainfall and isolated tornadoes.

"Areas likely to be most affected were northern Alabama, northern and central Georgia and much of South Carolina northward to the mid-Atlantic. Cities include #Atlanta, #Baltimore, #Charlotte, #Philadelphia and #WashingtonDC."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/more-than-140-000-without-power-in-tennessee-as-severe-weather-moves-in/ar-AA1eV9Mw?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a8846396611b4efbbfda7183034411e7&ei=19

#Wx #weather SevereWeather #PowerOutages #SoutheasternUS

@cvvhrn @Sustainable2050 #PowerOutages #RenewableEnergy #EnergyStorage #Netherlands

Blue Fire Studios track #powerOutages & provide data on them. I just stumbled across them, but they they look cool. https://poweroutage.us/ Plus, they have a #Mastodon feed.

As Australia heads into bushfire season, which can cause power outages, those of us who rely on electricity to run essential medical equipment might want to think about buying a back-up battery that can be charged from mains power, and then be used to run
continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines or to charge essential equipment like power wheelchairs or mobile phones.

For people who have National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), you may be able to use your NDIS funding to buy a back-up battery to run your medical equipment.

This is the back up battery that I bought, the Yeti 1500X - it's the same model that Western Power provides life support customers for planned power outages. (Nobody gave me anything to make this post.) https://goalzero.com.au/shop/portable-power-stations/yeti-1500x/

For people in the US, note that this link is to the Australian site, and that due to currency conversion rates, the US price will be almost 50% less than the Australian price.

#BushFires
#PowerOutages
#ContinuousPositiveAirwayPressure
#CPAP
#NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme
#NDIS

No need for head lamps when you're wearing these bad boys... #poweroutages #neon 😆

No need for head lamps when you're wearing these bad boys... #poweroutages #neon 😆

RT @California_ISO@twitter.com

#ISO has issued an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) 1 effective today, from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m. Consumers are strongly urged to use less #energy to avoid rotating #poweroutages. Learn more about California ISO’s emergency notifications: http://ow.ly/rN3H50KBoYk

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/California_ISO/status/1567206044413181955