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An electric grid monitoring company also recorded over 300 instances of faults - disturbances in the network caused by tree limbs touching live electrical wires or wires touching each other - in the hours leading up to the conflagration.
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Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
To the north, outside of this zone, for places such as Vancouver Island, Mars will appear to barely miss touching the limb of the moon.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2025
The weight of the snow and ice on tree limbs and power lines could produce isolated outages.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The tornado snapped a couple of large branches before whizzing north across Rockwood Road and Walkers Ferry Road, where the twister snapped more large limbs and knocked a tree down.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
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Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
To the north, outside of this zone, for places such as Vancouver Island, Mars will appear to barely miss touching the limb of the moon.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2025
The weight of the snow and ice on tree limbs and power lines could produce isolated outages.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The tornado snapped a couple of large branches before whizzing north across Rockwood Road and Walkers Ferry Road, where the twister snapped more large limbs and knocked a tree down.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Limb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limb. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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