NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than 318,000 homes and businesses remained without power Tuesday after snow and ice storms January 27-28 left almost 1.7 million customers in the dark from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania, local utilities reported.
More than 200,000 customers were powerless in Kentucky and 100,000 in Arkansas.
Along with taking other measures of common sense and thermal dynamic control—packing in ice or dry ice, keeping doors closed as much as possible—wikiHow notes that wrapping your refrigeration units will aid in insulating them from gaining in temperature.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency planners are struggling to identify growing millions who need fast rescue when the lights go out: A power outage also shuts down their life-supporting home medical equipment.
It's an issue that sneaked up on emergency officials as better medical treatments over the past decade have helped more critically ill people not only survive but move out of nursing homes.
The Associated Press found that where these people live determines how invisible they are to rescuers, starting with whether they even know to sign up for critical-care lists operated by utilities in every state.
We had an island wide (Oahu only) blackout starting at 6:30pm Friday evening. About 50% of the people were back on the grid about 12 hours later. For me it was 21.5 hours off of the power grid. So, what was the result of 2 years and 2 months of learning and preparing from a tech perspective? I provide my 2006 grades and comments along with 2008 commentary below.
Power was gradually being restored to Oahu this morning after most of the island was sunk into darkness for 12 hours or more, apparently due to a lightning storm.
As of 8:40 a.m., Hawaiian Electric Co. officials said about 182,000 out of 295,000 customers were back online as the company brought the island back on methodically to avoid overloading the system.
The blackout thrust Hawaii’s electrical generation problems into the international spotlight as the state’s most famous native son, President-elect Barack Obama, and his family were affected in their Kailua vacation compound. The home had emergency power and Heco officials said they sent a backup generator to the home last night.
Mayor Mufi Hannemann said at about 10:10 p.m. that Honolulu police had talked to Obama. “He said he is fine and he and his family are going to bed,” the mayor said on KSSK.
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