{"id":80727,"date":"2026-02-23T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80727"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:33:00","slug":"prayer-need-blackouts-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/prayer-need-blackouts-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Need: Blackouts Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fromn Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/assets.foxnews.com\/liveblog\/fw\/prod\/images\/2026\/02\/624\/351\/5a6aa79ac28450fc042f448da9fec9aa.png?tl=1&amp;ve=1\" alt=\"More than 500,000 in the dark as nor'easter slams the Northeast grid\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The historic blizzard battering the Northeast has officially pushed power outages past the half-million mark.\u00a0Data from PowerOutage.com indicates that over 500,000 customers are now without electricity as hurricane-force wind gusts and heavy, wet snow continue to dismantle the regional power grid. One customer represents a single address, so the number of Americans without power could be well over 1,000,000 at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The situation remains critical in Massachusetts and New Jersey, which are currently bearing the brunt of the blackouts with combined totals exceeding 270,000 outages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1771835580\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Prayer Need: Blackouts Hit\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fromn Fox News: The historic blizzard battering the Northeast has officially pushed power outages past the half-million mark.\u00a0Data from PowerOutage.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}