Severe storms cut power supply to 540,000 homes in US midwest

Guardian World•Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 11:49 AM•2 min read

Indiana faced most outages at 267,000, about 8% of its customers, with severe thunderstorms and wind ahead Power supply was cut on Thursday ⁠to about 540,000 homes and businesses across the US midwest as severe storms battered the region, data ⁠from PowerOutage. us showed. Indiana ⁠was the hard...

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