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Jamaican Utility Reduces Impact of Major Storms on its Citizens
2013-07-17 21:03:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Jamaica Public Service will upgrade its customer information system solution and implement a mobile workforce management and outage management system solutions to gain greater visibility across its transmission network significantly improving outage-restoration times in the aftermath of severe weather conditions. read more
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Story | Houston-area storms cut power for thousands
2013-07-15 18:32:32| Energy - Topix.net
Thousands of homes and businesses in Texas have lost power as rainstorms moved through the state and left one person slightly hurt.
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Space invasion: Solar storms pose critical threat to US infrastructure
2013-07-15 17:34:45| Extremetech
A new report on vulnerabilities in the US power grid sheds stark light on our ability to deal with certain kinds of threats. A coronal mass ejection of an equivalent magnitude to the one that hit the Earth in 1859 would cripple our infrastructure today, with some areas losing power for up to two years.
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Storms in W.Pa. leave thousands without power
2013-07-11 13:52:05| Energy - Topix.net
Pittsburgh and its southern suburbs cleaned up from flash flooding caused by heavy morning rains Wednesday, but a new round of late afternoon and evening storms left tens of thousands without power and reports of a tornado briefly appearing north of the city.
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Hurricanes And Climate Change: Storms Likely To Get Stronger And More Frequent, Study Shows
2013-07-10 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hurricanes are Mother Natures largest and most destructive storms. Fed by warm ocean waters and moist atmospheric conditions, about 90 such storms -- also known as tropical cyclones -- form worldwide each year. With the population of coastal areas growing daily and sea level on the rise, how these monster storms may change as the climate continues to warm is an increasingly urgent question facing climate scientists, insurance companies, and public officials. A new study by Kerry Emanuel, a prominent...
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