Sentences with phrase «after widespread power outages»

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After suffering widespread power outages thanks to Irma, 1 million Puerto Ricans were left without electricity.

Maria arrived about two weeks after Irma skirted Puerto Rico and led to widespread power outages for at least 1 million of the island's 3.4 million residents.

After adding in ongoing maintenance delays, crippled access to public transportation and widespread power outages to the circumstances, a storm could «really set back a family already on the brink,» Kelly said.

In the days after Hurricane Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, educators across multiple states faced the daunting task of reopening thousands of schools amid widespread power outages, flooding and wind damage, and other aftereffects of a storm that caused one of the largest disruptions to schooling in the United States in recent years.

Suffering economic slumps in the 60s and 70s, Bushwick was finally eviscerated by widespread looting and arson after the 1977 power outage in the New York City area, resulting in blocks of abandoned buildings, empty lots, and open - air drug supermarkets.

Irma comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey smashed ashore in Texas, knocking offline almost a quarter of U.S. oil refining capacity and causing widespread damage, power outages and flooding.