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Topic: Power outages

Straw bales and storm (Getty Images/BalazsKovacs)

How power outages impact American hunger

Ashlie D. Stevens

Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Massive solar storm could cause outages

Carbon monoxide alarm (Getty Images)

TX's carbon monoxide poisoning tragedy

Perla Trevizo, Ren Larson, Lexi Churchill, Mike Hixenbaugh, Suzy Khimm - ProPublica

A swinging bench hangs from a tree after a snow storm on February 18, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas. Residents have gone days without electricity and fresh water after a catastrophic failure of the power grid in the state. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

Texas Storm: A Cold Waiting Game

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Burning candle on desktop in darkness (Getty Images)

How to stay warm when the power is out

Firefighters try to save a building as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 8, 2018 in Paradise, California (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Coping with (power) loss

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News

Jose Garcia Vicente holds a piece of plumbing he picked up, as he shows his destroyed home, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico while the Trump administration sought to blunt criticism that its response to Hurricane Maria has fallen short of it efforts in Texas and Florida after the recent hurricanes there. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (AP)

The lasting impact in Puerto Rico

Shao Lin - The Conversation

Destruction left after Hurricane Irma (Getty/Gerben Van Es)

Death, devastation in Florida

Leigh C. Anderson

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Manhattan without power (Prachi Gupta/Salon)

Natasha Lennard

One of many flooded subways in New York City (Twitter via @MTAInsider)

Sandy's slow recovery

Darkened skyline (via Twitter user Ronnie Joice)

Natasha Lennard

Natasha Lennard

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