Sentences with phrase «of blackout lining»

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By far the most common cause of blackouts is damage to power lines, which are the most vulnerable part of the electrical grid to storms.

The Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall toppled 80 percent of the island's power lines and flooded its generators last September, leaving the island in the longest and largest blackout in US history.

This island - wide blackout comes less than a week after a tree fell on a major power line, knocking out service to 870,000 customers, about half of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's clients, the company said.

In past studies, scientists using simple 1D models of Earth would have found that 16 high - voltage electrical transmission lines were disturbed in the mid-Atlantic region during the storm, resulting in the blackout.

A failed power line in Ohio set off a cascade of events that triggered the largest blackout in North American history and crippled much of the northeastern U.S. for two days.

AEP's primary motivation for the center, through better real - time monitoring of every line, better organization of all the data and better presentation of diagnostics to the operators, is to prevent another great blackout such as the one of August 2003.

The electric system always has to be operated so that no single line failure will start a cascade of failures that would lead to a blackout.

Its neutral hue complements an array of colors and prints, and a blackout lining lets...

I chose this pretty blue medallion print fabric along with blackout lining for them, both courtesy of Online Fabric Store.

Instead of fabric I used blackout lining left over from the curtains in the old flat (the kids» bedroom was east - facing and would be light at 5 am this time of year!).

Made of pure cotton velvet and featuring a blackout lining, this panel blocks out light for easier naptime.

Using a flat brush, apply Blackout at the end of your lash line and stamp the color and then lightly «flick» the black shadow into the rest of the eye look.

Like most of Mr. Ferrara's films, The Blackout takes place in a trance state — events are fuzzy, line readings even fuzzier.

From the red carpet blackout, to the Time's Up pins the majority of stars were wearing, to the mentions in acceptance speeches and Seth Meyers» monologue, the 2018 Golden Globes defiantly drew a line in the sand and said, «Enough is enough».

True — it's called Blackout in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and it's being deliberately developed to fall in line with the experiences fans would generally expect of Battle Royale gameplay.

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Bottom Line: The Chase United MileagePlus ® Explorer Card offers two free lounge visits, luxury hotel benefits, no blackout date award seats, and plenty of travel insurances to cover your trip!

Rooms are soundproofed with blackout curtains for optimum comfort regardless of your flight times and feature 24 hour room service, express checkout and direct telephone lines.

This is all on top of your own physical arsenal, such as the Blackout which kills out electricity in an entire city block for a certain amount of time, perfect for a deadly assault or for sneaking through enemy lines, as well as just being really freaking cool.

In the «Hand - Picked» exhibition, one of the breathtakingly detailed works is the Mary Ellen Marks portrait of the age - lined hands of Louise Bourgeois, emerging from blackout shadow into white light of such power that an orthopedic hand surgeon could begin an operation.

It helps that his work is provocative in all the right ways, drawing on the transgressive chic of his subject matter: London's underground gay nightlife, from the blackout, vinyl - lined sex clubs to rave culture.

Moreover, prior to the intervention of subsidised and chaotic wind power, South Australians also enjoyed power delivered, almost without fail, save localised blackouts caused by lightning strikes and fallen lines.

A likely answer is that California is so focused and busy on environmental projects that redistribute wealth to various constituencies that they no longer are concerned about public safety (the San Bruno natural gas line explosion in San Francisco in 2010, the constant blow ups of water pipes under the streets of Los Angeles, the retrofitting of the San Onofre Nuke Plant, so that it could be a peaker plant that could ramp up and down to back up intermittent green power, failed and the plant was shut down eventually resulting in the South West Blackout in 2011).

But with increasing trouble meeting energy demands — there are now brownouts, blackouts everywhere — who's going to want a power line in their backyard for new corridors of power supply?»

Actually, the Northeast blackout of 2003 was not caused by a lack of power supply, it was because of events in the Midwest involving lines overloading for several hours, which created a severe power surge in excess of 3,500 megawatts that entered New York from the Midwest through Pennsylvania and continued into Canada.

A small bit of forward thinking can prevent damage to power cables and electrical lines, and help prevent blackouts.

Customize them with additional touches like contrasting borders and privacy or blackout linings to meet the needs of different rooms.

A roman blind with a blackout lining offers the most effective way of blocking light for bedrooms because it is the closest fitting to your window size of all the blinds available.

I chose to have them privacy lined (you can also do sheers and blackout) and it lets some light in but blocks out a majority of it.

(My curtains have blackout lining and I am afraid of ironing since I do not know if ironing will damage the lining cloth.)

In the bedroom, the combination of blackout shades and blackout lined curtains also block light and help improve sleep.