2005 Atlantic Power Outage
- 2005 Atlantic Power Outage
The Atlantic Power Outage of 2005 caused hundreds of thousands of people along the Atlantic coast of the United States to suffer power outages. Winter ice storms caused power cuts starting on December 15, 2005. [cite web | url=http://www.dukepower.com/newsarchives/2005/dec/2005121501.asp | title=Duke Power Responding To Ice Storm |date=2005-12-15 | publisher=Duke Power]
Electricity was not restored in many places until December 20, 2005, by which time one death was blamed on the outage. [cite web | url=http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=3731628 | title=One Dead, 450,000 in Dark After Icy Storm | publisher=Associated Press |date=2005-12-15]
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*Duke Energy
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*cite web | url=http://www.dukepower.com/newsarchives/2005/dec/2005121501.asp | title=Duke Power Responding To Ice Storm |date=2005-12-15 | publisher=Duke Power
*cite web | url=http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=3731628 | title=One Dead, 450,000 in Dark After Icy Storm | publisher=Associated Press |date=2005-12-15
**cite web | url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20051215-1108-icestorm.html/ | title=Icy weather causes power outages to some 300,000 in South | author=Ivey, Page | publisher=Associated Press |date=2005-12-15
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