State in the dark: South Australia's major power outage

By Emily Woods and Georgina Mitchell
Updated September 29 2016 - 7:50am, first published 6:45am
Police direct traffic in Adelaide. Photo: Twitter/@brittaaahhny
Police direct traffic in Adelaide. Photo: Twitter/@brittaaahhny

The entire state of South Australia was without power for several hours on Wednesday afternoon, with the region gripped by what could be one of the most extreme weather systems to hit in 50 years.

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