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.
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In the video at the top of this webpage, meteorologist Jaclyn Shearer talks about what caused the outage and how residents beat the heat.