Widespread power outages upended life for millions across Spain and Portugal — and, briefly, parts of France — on Monday. Traffic lights went dark at busy intersections. Trains stopped in the middle of a workday. And long lines formed at A.T.M.s and grocery stores, where credit card readers stopped working. By Tuesday morning, the outages…
When Christina Cassotis, the chief executive of Pittsburgh International Airport, heard about the power outage that forced London’s Heathrow Airport to suspend operations last week, she thought of the workers who were frantically trying to manage the chaos. But when an outage hits closer to home, she has a more restrained response: Keep calm and…
Meta Platforms’s META.O Instagram was down for thousands of users in the US on Thursday evening, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 19,431 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform, as of 7:25 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources….
Texas Tech University has shut down its campus and sent students home early for spring break after a series of explosions and manhole fires, the university said in an emergency alert. An explosion at a substation near the school Wednesday evening caused power outages across campus, the university said. Conditions quickly devolved, with the university…
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was experiencing intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems from users on websites. The first outages on X, which Elon Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022, were reported before 6 a.m. Eastern time, after which the site and…
LOS ANGELES: Debris flows brought on by the strongest atmospheric river of the season swept a car off a southern California highway and into the ocean and left roads submerged in sludge. While the heavy rains from the storm hitting the region began to ease Thursday night, the risk of rock and mudslides on wildfire-scarred…
A storm system bore down Tuesday on the mid-Atlantic states, covering roads with snow and ice and leading to school closures and worries about possible power outages. The heaviest snow — up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) — was forecast for parts of northern and central Virginia and eastern West Virginia. Ice accumulations could range…
ATLANTA : Flight cancellations piled up and state officials warned of continuing dangerous roads Saturday in the wake of a winter storm that closed schools and disrupted travel across parts of the southern U.S. A storm that brought biting cold and wet snow to the South was moving out to sea off the East Coast…
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it would start crediting customers for internet outages and long wait times, the latest initiative in a yearslong effort to revamp the company’s customer service. Starting Thursday, individual AT&T customers and small businesses that experience a fiber outage of more than 20 minutes or a wireless outage of more than…