DoomsdaysCW<p>Power Outages Top 500,000 As Severe Weather Batters Several States</p><p>Story by Jan Wesner Childs, August 7, 2023</p><p>"More than 500,000 homes and businesses were without power across five states as severe storms packing damaging winds and hail battered the South and moved east.</p><p>"Downed trees and roof damage were reported in several areas, including parts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tennessee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tennessee</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mississippi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mississippi</span></a>.</p><p>"Hail crashed down in several areas, including around <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Huntington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Huntington</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestVirginia</span></a>.</p><p>"Top power outage numbers as of about 6:15 p.m. eastern time, according to PowerOutage.us: more than 130,000 in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a>; about 120,000 in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a>; more than 100,000 in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maryland</span></a>; about 97,000 in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tennessee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tennessee</span></a>; and 73,000 in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Virginia</span></a>.</p><p>"The severe weather was part of an outbreak of severe storms in the East and South expected to produce widespread damaging wind gusts, hail, flooding rainfall and isolated tornadoes.</p><p>"Areas likely to be most affected were northern Alabama, northern and central Georgia and much of South Carolina northward to the mid-Atlantic. Cities include <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Baltimore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baltimore</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Charlotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Charlotte</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philadelphia</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/more-than-140-000-without-power-in-tennessee-as-severe-weather-moves-in/ar-AA1eV9Mw?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a8846396611b4efbbfda7183034411e7&ei=19" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/weather/topstori</span><span class="invisible">es/more-than-140-000-without-power-in-tennessee-as-severe-weather-moves-in/ar-AA1eV9Mw?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a8846396611b4efbbfda7183034411e7&ei=19</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SevereWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SevereWeather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PowerOutages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOutages</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SoutheasternUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoutheasternUS</span></a></p>