Tornadoes Leave Over 200,000 People Without Electricity in Texas, Tracker Shows

06:41 GMT, 3 March 2023

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - More than 200,000 consumers have been left without electricity in the US state of Texas due to tornadoes, according to data from the monitoring service PowerOutage.us.

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As of 11:40 p.m. local time on Thursday (05:40 GMT on Friday), a total of 206,676 customers experienced power outages, the data showed.

Meteorologists linked the natural hazard to the same that caused heavy snow in the western state of California in February.

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Bad weather conditions also led to the cancellation of up to 462 flights in Texas on Thursday night, according to FlightAware data.