25,000+ Customers Without Power in Cuyahoga, Placer, Franklin, Cumbria Amid Severe Weather

Multiple regions across the U.S. experienced significant power outages recently due to various causes. In Franklin County, North Carolina, about 870 customers lost power early Monday amid heavy rain and thunderstorms, with restoration expected by morning. Placer County, California, saw approximately 8,500 customers without electricity on Sunday morning, with PG&E investigating the cause and aiming to restore power by noon. In Cleveland, Ohio, a large outage affected more than 25,000 FirstEnergy customers primarily in Fairview Park, Rocky River, and surrounding suburbs on Friday night, caused by a substation failure, with repairs expected into early Saturday. Additionally, hundreds of homes in Cumbria, England, were without power during a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms, with crews dispatched to address the outages. These incidents highlight the vulnerability of power infrastructure to weather-related events and technical failures, impacting tens of thousands of customers nationwide.