Don't let spark of love turn into power-grid meltdown, utilities warn before Valentine's Day
Electric companies have a warning for those celebrating Valentine's Day on Friday: helium-filled foil balloons can cause ...
Valentine's Day makes hearts soar, but make sure balloons don't. They can cause outages 🎈
FirstEnergy is warning people not to release their Valentine's Day balloons in the air. Why? They could cause power outages.
Valentine's Day isn't all smiles for the folks at CPS Energy
Those shiny, heart-shaped Mylar balloons are a constant worry for the city-owned utility. They don't play well with power ...
The Journal3d
Montezuma-Cortez chamber choir offers Valentine’s Day singing telegrams
The Montezuma-Cortez High School chamber choir will again offer singing telegrams for Valentine’s Day, for delivery Wednesday ...
Midwest, Plains states brace for another round of winter weather
Two winter storms are bearing down on the northern United States as millions of Americans are digging out from the last round ...
Winston-Salem Journal2d
Two Things: Some bills to watch in Raleigh - and can Chief Thompson work a crowd or what?
With the long legislative session swinging into full gear, lawmakers get busy filing a mountain of bills. Some are silly, ...
Rocky Mount Telegram4d
Commissioners adopt resolution discouraging helium balloon releases
The days of releasing balloons in Nash County to commemorate a loss may be at an end after a slim majority of elected ...
Axios on MSN2d
Stratospheric balloon company bets big on standing still
Stratospheric balloon company Sceye recently completed a feat that heralds the increased use of a new layer of the atmosphere ...
yourerie3d
Don’t give love a bad name — FirstEnergy reminds residents about dangers of metallic balloons
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Penelec’s parent company FirstEnergy is warning about the impact those metallic heart-shaped balloons can have on our power grid. It’s ...
The Cool Down on MSN3d
Viral spectacle inside shopping mall prompts uproar online: 'Makes me sick'
"This mall does a giant ... drop every Valentine's season." Viral spectacle inside shopping mall prompts uproar online: ...
Salinas Valley Tribune1d
On Valentine’s Day, let hearts soar, not metallic balloons, warns PG&E
Many metallic balloons are sold for Valentine’s Day, and PG&E sees an uptick in outages caused by them drifting into overhead ...