By Arun Kumar, Washington, July 02: Washington was Monday limped slowly to normal, even hundreds of thousands of residents in central and eastern United States continued power outages caused by the storms of battle to wild week.
At least 16 people died in the series of storms that knocked out power to millions of people over the weekend amid record heat that has baked areas of Missouri to New York to Georgia, according to CNN.
While crews worked around the clock to restore power, the weatherman gave no respite from the sweltering heat that is expected to dampen areas from Missouri to South Carolina on Monday, with at least 16 states in the notices or heat warnings.
"Hot and hotter will be the story of the Plains to the Atlantic coast the next day," said National Weather Service on Monday.
"The widespread warnings of excessive heat warnings and heat certainly have declined the coverage, but temperatures remain well above average across much of the U.S.."
Hundreds of thousands of people from Texas through Maryland were still without electricity even when the number of electrical faults related to the storm fell from a peak of about four million dollars.
Meanwhile, in the Washington metropolitan area, with about half a million homes still without power and hundreds of lights still dark, non-emergency employees of federal agencies have been given the option of taking casual leave or to work remotely on Monday.
Power companies are asking for reinforcements from as far away as Missouri, Oklahoma and Canada, and the National Guard is launching to help with the cleaning of the storm, according to the Washington Post.
On Monday morning, about 492,000 households in the Washington area and businesses, almost one in four electricity customers in the region - were still without electricity, the Post said citing data on web sites useful.
Many without electricity became free of ice bags, others jumped into the pool open as cooling centers. However, others went to the movies or just drove around in cars with air conditioning, even some gas stations that were reopened Sunday charged a higher price.
And even when the temperature at Dulles International Airport Sunday was a record for the day of 96 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the record of 94 F in 1968, the authorities said it could be a week before all power is restored.
At least 16 people died in the series of storms that knocked out power to millions of people over the weekend amid record heat that has baked areas of Missouri to New York to Georgia, according to CNN.
While crews worked around the clock to restore power, the weatherman gave no respite from the sweltering heat that is expected to dampen areas from Missouri to South Carolina on Monday, with at least 16 states in the notices or heat warnings.
"Hot and hotter will be the story of the Plains to the Atlantic coast the next day," said National Weather Service on Monday.
"The widespread warnings of excessive heat warnings and heat certainly have declined the coverage, but temperatures remain well above average across much of the U.S.."
Hundreds of thousands of people from Texas through Maryland were still without electricity even when the number of electrical faults related to the storm fell from a peak of about four million dollars.
Meanwhile, in the Washington metropolitan area, with about half a million homes still without power and hundreds of lights still dark, non-emergency employees of federal agencies have been given the option of taking casual leave or to work remotely on Monday.
Power companies are asking for reinforcements from as far away as Missouri, Oklahoma and Canada, and the National Guard is launching to help with the cleaning of the storm, according to the Washington Post.
On Monday morning, about 492,000 households in the Washington area and businesses, almost one in four electricity customers in the region - were still without electricity, the Post said citing data on web sites useful.
Many without electricity became free of ice bags, others jumped into the pool open as cooling centers. However, others went to the movies or just drove around in cars with air conditioning, even some gas stations that were reopened Sunday charged a higher price.
And even when the temperature at Dulles International Airport Sunday was a record for the day of 96 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the record of 94 F in 1968, the authorities said it could be a week before all power is restored.
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