Sentences with phrase «damage to infrastructure from»

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Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in damages, accounting for property damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

Sept 27 (Reuters)- DDR Corp -: DDR provides update on impact from hurricane maria.DDR Corp - expect full recovery to span a significant period of time given damage to Puerto Rico's critical infrastructure, other reasons.DDR Corp - plaza Palma Real, company's 448,915 square foot asset located on southeastern portion of island sustained significant damage.

You also agree to indemnify the Indemnified Parties for any loss, damages, or costs, including reasonable attorneys» fees, resulting from your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Cuomo returned to Wayne and Monroe Counties to visit communities impacted by flooding and erosion damage from Lake Ontario, announcing the state will reimburse the Town of Greece and the Village of Sodus Point $ 500,000 each for infrastructure costs due to flooding.

The aid package is meant to bolster shoreline communities and help with infrastructure ranging from water and sewer as well as sidewalks and walls damaged by the flooding.

And to do that we need to do three things: get the country's spending in check with firm financial controls, raise money for targeted investment in much needed infrastructure; and see us diversify the economy from a damaging dependence on oil.»

«Everything from our banks to our critical infrastructure are at risk for damaging cyber-attacks like never before, and we must step up our counter-hacking game ASAP to deal with threats from places like Iran and would be terrorists,» Schumer said in a statement.

CSEA President Danny Donohue said union members should follow all appropriate safety guidelines as they recover from the storm, which caused widespread flooding, damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure and downed trees and power lines.

Neutrino and dark matter experiments in a former iron mine in Minnesota appear to have escaped serious harm from a fire, but damage to laboratory infrastructure means it will take at least a few more weeks to get them running again.

Then came World War II, which left Japan with a damaged infrastructure and a determination from planners to build superior housing connected to sewers.

In the United States, such interlopers — everything from zebra mussels in the Great Lakes to Burmese pythons in the Everglades — damage crops, infrastructure or otherwise cost taxpayers about $ 145 billion annually.

In relation to the current capital value of infrastructure and buildings in each country, the damage is reducing from natural catastrophes.

They range from improving earthquake forecasting and developing early - warning systems to understanding how to increase the resistance of existing buildings to damage and how to preserve electricity and water infrastructure.

Adding pressure on Trump, scientists from the United States and other Arctic nations issued a report ahead of the meeting warning that the warming could lead to trillions of dollars worth of damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure this century..

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

This increase in demand — up 58 % since 2009 — combined with antiquated infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of brownouts and blackouts, such as the one resulting from the 2013 ice storm that caused 27 deaths, loss of power to over a million residents and more than $ 200 million in damages.

the tax will be used for «tourism - related infrastructure» — which can include anything from the upkeep of seaside boulevards or the rebuilding of beaches after they have been damaged in storms, to payment of salaries for extra police man hours during such events as Blanes» famous annual international fireworks festival.

The closure is intended to clean up the island and surrounding ocean from environmental damage caused by too many visitors and poor infrastructure.

The bottom line from this experiment is that simply drawing a new coastline along a topographic contour is overly simplistic and greatly underestimates the damage to human infrastructure and the loss of coastal environments.

Overwash accumulating each year will also damage the infrastructure on these islands, making it much harder for potable water resources to recover from storm events.

From the ocean acidification that threatens shellfish, a food source Oregonians love, to the coastal erosion that leads to infrastructure damage and may cause coastal residents to move inland.

Apart from widespread damage to infrastructure (roads, houses) in northern territories, resulting annual carbon emissions could eventually amount to 15 - 35 percent of today's yearly emissions from human activities, making the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.

Mid-latitude islands, such as islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland (St. Pierre et Miquelon), are exposed to impacts from tropical, post-tropical, and extra-tropical storms that can produce storm - surge flooding, large waves, coastal erosion, and (in some winter storms) direct sea ice damage to infrastructure and property.

These include reducing: mortality from disasters, the number impacted, economic losses, and the damage to critical infrastructure.

For Europe as a whole, the damage caused by climate hazards to infrastructure rises progressively, from 0.12 % of the current gross net investment in fixed capital assets to 1.37 % by the end of this century.

These concern damages to coastal infrastructure and low - lying ecosystems from continuing sea level rise, where damages would be widespread if sea level turns out to be at the upper end of current scenarios; and, threats to agricultural production in both far south - eastern and far south - western Australia, which would affect ecosystems and rural communities severely at the dry end of projected rainfall changes.

Across America, states, cities, and communities are taking steps to protect themselves from extreme weather and other climate impacts by updating building codes, adjusting the way they manage natural resources, investing in more resilient infrastructure, and planning for rapid recovery from damages that nonetheless occur.

These include potential flood damages from more extreme rainfall in most parts of Australia and New Zealand; constraints on water resources from reducing rainfall in southern Australia; increased health risks and infrastructure damages from heat waves in Australia; and, increased economic losses, risks to human life and ecosystem damage from wildfires in southern Australia and many parts of New Zealand.

Jochen Hinkel from the Global Climate Forum in Berlin and colleagues have compiled, for the first time, global simulation results on future flood damage to buildings and infrastructure on the world's coastal flood plains.

State and local governments are surveying the risks from future sea - level rise and determining the most likely types of damage to local infrastructure.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

Since, developing countries will suffer the most from climate change, there must be an international trade policy, regulations, incentive programs to develop agriculture infrastructure as well as real - time applications that warn the farmers of upcoming weather so they can minimize crop damage and crop loss.

Representing owner of liquids processing, fractionating, and transporting facilities in a dispute over alleged non-performance of exchange agreement, obligations which non-delivery was caused by the damage to energy infrastructure resulting from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

«Infrastructure teams should also better segment their IT systems to prevent future malware from spreading laterally through connected networks, to prevent potential for extensive damage,» he added.

Misconfigurations are an internal problem that emanate from within the IT infrastructure of any enterprise; no hacker is necessary for massive damage to occur to digital systems and stored data.

While many might think of the spoiling of beach time, I couldn't wait to see the infrastructure damage up close, to measure the property and infrastructure damage from storm and water with my own eyes, and I had my chance.