Alabama Storms Leave Thousands Without Power

0:00In Birmingham, it's March 16th, and here's what is going on. Severe storms swept through Alabama late Sunday night, leaving more than 33,000 customers without power early Monday morning. The outages hit hardest as a strong cold front, push temperatures down fast. East Alabama saw the worst of it, with close to 5,000 homes dark in Talapusa County, and over 3,000 in Elmore County. Central areas like Randolph and Taladega counties each reported more than 2,000 outages, too. Meanwhile, places like Lauderdale County, under a tornado warning just hours earlier, saw numbers drop from over 8,000 to around 25. Hundreds, almost every county in Central Alabama, has hundreds still affected. Across the nation, the same weather system caused more than half a million outages, with over 118,000 in Michigan alone, stretching from Texas to New York. Looking ahead, Monday mornings dip into the 30s with a chance for snow showers in Central Alabama.

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