About 130,000 consumers in California were left without electricity

Almost 130 thousand consumers in the US state of California were left without electricity. This was confirmed on December 21 by data from the monitoring service PowerOutage.

It is specified that San Francisco has the largest number of outages - 124.5 thousand.

According to Mayor Daniel Lori, traffic lights and public transport lines were turned off as a result of the incident. He also added that specialists have started restoring power supply.

"We will expand the presence of officers at intersections and corridors to ensure the safety of those who are still on the road," he said in a statement on Twitter. Twitter).

Freezing and waiting: in the cities of Ukraine they refuse to turn on the heating

Cities across the country may be without heat for more than a month.

On December 18, Reuters reported that more than 333,000 homes and businesses in the United States remain without power after severe storms hit the northwestern Pacific Coast and the Rocky Mountains. The most affected utilities were Xcel Energy in Colorado and Puget Sound Energy in Washington— with 98,000 out of 4.28 million customers and 38.3 thousand out of 1.29 million customers, respectively.

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