MOSCOW: More than 200,000 consumers have been left without electricity in the US state of Texas due to tornadoes, reported Sputnik, based on data from monitoring service PowerOutage.us.
As of 11.40 pm local time on Thursday, a total of 206,676 customers experienced power outages, the data showed.
Meteorologists linked the natural hazard to the same thing that caused heavy snow in the western state of California in February.
Bad weather conditions also led to the cancellation of up to 462 flights in Texas on Thursday night, according to FlightAware data. – BERNAMA
