The Winds Have Caused Widespread Power Outages
The powerful winds and derecho combined to wreak havoc on the electric grid. In what has become a defining story of the U.S. in 2021, hundreds of thousands of households are without power. More than 550,000 households in areas impacted by yesterday’s windpocalypse have lost power, with the most widespread outages in Michigan. That state alone has nearly 237,000 homes with no juice, most in the Upper Peninsula and northern half of the mitten. (If you’re from Michigan, you know.)
Those folks join the 12,000-plus households in Kentucky still without power following Friday’s deadly tornado outbreak and the millions more who have lost power this year across the country from wildfires, cold, heat, and hurricanes. Just in case you needed a reminder that our 20th-century grid isn’t ready for 21st century weather, this is it.
