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2019 Outage News

The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) compiles reports on outages.  Click to go to their web site for a list of outages sorted by year.

The following is a list of news summaries of some major power outages and related stories as reported in the media for this time period.  The most recent are listed first.

• Over 1 million U.S. customers without power after Michael
  More than 1 million homes and businesses on the U.S. East Coast were without power on Friday after Hurricane Michael and its remnants moved from Florida to Virginia. Some customers in the hardest hit parts of Florida may have to wait weeks for power to be restored, the utilities said. Michael blew ashore near Mexico Beach on Wednesday afternoon as probably the third most powerful storm in U.S. history, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour. Michael grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale in less than two days.
  --various news reports such as Reuters, October 11, 2018.