Ike knocked out power to 93% of Centerpoint Energy's 2.2 million customers around Houston.
Alford also said the storm knocked out power to the Oklahoma City area's Draper Water Treatment Plant.
Hurricane Sandy has knocked out power to much of New York City, impacting hospitals throughout the city.
The explosion knocked out power to many local customers and could be heard and felt for miles around.
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Data centres forced to switch to the use of back-up generators warned that they might run out power.
The storm knocked out power to roughly 600, 000 power customers in southern New England by early Saturday morning.
Eighty mph winds damaged the roof and knocked out power, but the airport was not hit by a tornado.
It triggered overnight traffic jams and took out power to about 320, 000 homes.
Still, 50mph sustained winds is enough to break tree limbs and cause coastal flooding, other than knocking out power.
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Strong winds arrived by 05:30, enough to knock out power before most people got out of bed Sunday morning.
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The storm knocked out power to more than 660, 000 customers in New England.
Sandy roared ashore Monday night, knocking out power to millions of people, and flooding mass transit systems across the Northeast.
An attack on U.S. computer networks could knock out power grids, telecommunications, transportation and banking systems in a matter of seconds.
The storm also knocked out power to nearly 186, 000 homes and businesses in Rhode Island, and about 39, 000 in Connecticut, utilities said.
It is expected to disrupt travel, close schools and knock out power.
One tornado touched down near Wellston, Oklahoma, taking out power lines and damaging several homes, according to video from CNN affiliate KFOR.
It dropped 5 inches on Washington and 7.8 inches on Baltimore, knocked out power to about 320, 000 homes and contributed to six deaths.
The storm had dumped more than 2 feet of snow on New England by early Saturday and knocked out power to 650, 000 customers.
The storm knocked out power to more than 400, 000 addresses there, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all power outages, according to Massachusetts power companies.
It knocked out power to over 400, 000 addresses there, accounting for nearly two thirds of all power outages, according to the state's power companies.
Middle Tennessee, for instance, was the last of the at-large teams to make the field, beating out power-conference teams such as Tennessee, Iowa, Alabama and Virginia.
About half of U.S. homes are on equalized billing programs that even out power bills month to month and are the antithesis of real-time pricing programs.
The storm marched into the Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday, dumping nearly two feet of snow in some places and knocking out power to about 250, 000 homes and businesses.
Projects like power generation, on the other hand, may cost hundreds of millions of dollars, since Google.org will endeavor to prove engineering concepts by building out power plants.
Irene hit that area hard, knocking out power to 700, 000 residents, claiming two lives, and damaging dozens of homes while sweeping four of them out to sea.
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Manhattan has been divided into telecom haves and have-nots, with service problems most significant below 39th Street, where flooding knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of residents.
The overriding questions are whether it can agree on how to share out power and whether it can translate that agreement into effective mechanisms for administration inside Afghanistan.
Heavy rain, thunderstorms, high winds and hail moved through sections of the Northeast on Sunday afternoon, knocking out power to more than 40, 000 in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Sandy walloped New York on Oct. 29, killing more than 40 people in the city, damaging thousands of homes and knocking out power to an estimated 1 million people.
His first task is to try to make sure the reaction that puts out power can be fully reversed, so the battery is efficient and doesn't degrade over time.
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