Heavy rains and a Texas tornado knock out electricity to 200,000

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NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power Monday (Oct 21) morning as thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and knocked down power lines from Texas to Tennessee.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW YORK - More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power Monday morning as thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and knocked down power lines from Texas to Tennessee.

The utility"has experienced significant damage to power lines" that have made it difficult to estimate restoration times, the company said in a statement on its website. There were 204 reports of storm damage across the central and southern US through Sunday as the front passed through, said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the US Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

 

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