{"id":224978,"date":"2024-10-16T07:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=224978"},"modified":"2024-10-16T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:48:29","slug":"tornado-knocks-down-power-poles-in-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/tornado-knocks-down-power-poles-in-the-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado knocks down power poles in the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Poste-de-Luz-derribado-por-tornado-Hoy-1024x537.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225055\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Poste-de-Luz-derribado-por-tornado-Hoy-1024x537.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Poste-de-Luz-derribado-por-tornado-Hoy-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Poste-de-Luz-derribado-por-tornado-Hoy-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Poste-de-Luz-derribado-por-tornado-Hoy-1536x806.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Poste-de-Luz-derribado-por-tornado-Hoy-2048x1075.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports have just come in that a powerful tornado tore through provinces in southwestern Dominican Republic on Wednesday, 9 October 2024, downing five power poles and causing widespread outages in San Juan de la Maguana and El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, according to Edesur Dominicana, the power provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The utility company reported that the damaged 69-kilovolt power line has left thousands of residents in San Juan, Las Matas de Farf\u00e1n, and El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a without electricity. The fallen poles have also blocked several roads, disrupting transportation in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edesur crews were dispatched to the affected areas to clear debris, repair the damaged power line, and replace the downed poles. The company is working to restore power as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/tornado-derribo-cinco-postes-de-linea-que-suministra-energia-electrica-a-san-juan-y-elias-pina\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 October 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports have just come in that a powerful tornado tore through provinces in southwestern Dominican Republic on Wednesday, 9 October 2024, downing five power poles and causing widespread outages in San Juan de la Maguana and El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, according to Edesur Dominicana, the power provider. The utility company reported that the damaged 69-kilovolt power line &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/tornado-knocks-down-power-poles-in-the-southwest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225056,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224978\/revisions\/225056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}