LANDIS, N.C. — Duke Energy customers in Landis and parts of Kannapolis were without power Wednesday morning.
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Town leaders opened cooling stations as temperatures soared into the 90s.
In the video at the top of this webpage, meteorologist Jaclyn Shearer talks about what caused the outage and how residents beat the heat.
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