outages
By Shariq Khan NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly a quarter of fuel pumps in Florida were out of gasoline on Wednesday morning as residents rushed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall, potentially one of the most destructive ever to hit the state’s Gulf Coast. More than a million people…
Electric pickup trucks have become unlikely saviors in extreme weather events.Ford F-150 Lightning owners in Florida and South Carolina used their trucks as mobile generators.Ford saw a major spike in Pro Power Onboard usage following Hurricane Helene. When Hurricane Helene knocked out the power at Justin Long’s veterinary practice in…
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – U.S. eased about 1% on Monday on a small increase in output over the weekend and forecasts for less demand over the next two weeks than previously expected. That small output increase came as some drillers restarted their Gulf of Mexico production now that Hurricane…
By James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) – Elements of Friday’s global IT outage, which grounded planes and hit services from banking to healthcare, have occurred before and until more contingencies are built into networks, and organisations put better back-up plans in place, it will happen again. Friday’s outage was caused by…
By Arathy Somasekhar and Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) – About 1.7 million customers remained without power in Texas on Wednesday morning, two days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, as progress was slow during the night, hampering efforts to restore critical oil infrastructure. The storm made landfall as a Category 1…
