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48,000 households already dark, a coastal grid facing landfall, and a high freezing level over hydro catchments

Restoration in one place, pre-positioning in another, and reservoir arithmetic in a third. In eastern Japan about 48,000 households lost power and crews are working access on slopes under a live landslide risk, which makes restoration a safety-sequencing problem rather than a line-repair one. On the Odisha coast the work is pre-positioning before Sep 23: crews staged, feeders sectionalised, coastal substations watched against wind and water. In south-central Chile the high freezing level is the whole story for hydro — about 100 mm in 48 hours arriving as rain rather than snow raises inflows fast and turns reservoir operation into a flood-control decision this week rather than a storage one. Nigeria's 15-state advisory keeps distribution assets in low-lying areas exposed, with the driver correctly identified as rainfall, not a dam release.

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