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The failure caused outages for 195,000 Xcel Energy customers.

Power has been restored after a transformer failure led to an outage that impacted more than 195,000 Xcel Energy and CORE ...

Neighbors told Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson that a tree fell on some power lines before they heard an explosion and lost their power. “ [I] heard a loud bang amongst the trees ...

Viral videos of "exploding trees" during extreme cold weather prompts the question if it's really an occurrence.

Recovery from Mississippi's worst ice storm in more than 30 years could take a week or more. A coating of ice felled trees ...

North Jerseyans should be aware of the effects of extreme cold this weekend, from frostbite and numbness to ... exploding trees? That last item is a possibility, according to a viral post on X from ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...

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As Wisconsin and much of the upper Midwest prepare for rapidly dropping subzero temperatures, some viral social media posts warn people to watch out for "exploding trees." The phenomenon, while ...