Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 28
Severe storms and multiple tornadoes caused devastation across the Midwest on Monday night and into Tuesday morning, leaving more than half a million energy customers without power, as fears rise over a lingering risk of floods.
Almost 330,000 energy connections were lost in Illinois, according to PowerOutage.us, as well as 188,000 in Indiana and nearly 20,000 in Iowa.
The National Weather Service in Chicago said: “This storm is producing multiple tornadoes at the same time!” A tornado was confirmed in Des Moines, Iowa.
Police in Joliet warned of downed power lines and trees, with many roads blocked. Motorists were urged to use “extreme caution.”
Meanwhile in Texas, almost 150,000 people were still without power, mostly in the Greater Houston area, eight days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall.
Regional energy supplier Centerpoint said it had fixed 2 million connections and expected 98% of those who lost power to be reconnected by the end of Wednesday.
Source: NBC News
