Sentences with phrase «of widespread outages»

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And given that widespread power outages have continued into November, the number of indirect deaths from the hurricane is probably higher still.

After sweltering for more than a week without power, a group of sweaty Miami - area residents sued FPL last year over the widespread outages after the storm.

A key part of the government, the island's sole utility company, PREPA, defaulted on interest payments to bondholders in July of this year, Vox reports, leading to widespread power outages.

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.

Butterworth rode out the experience on - site with her sous chef and her executive pastry chef, taking care of the guests that flocked to the hotel to ride it out and avoid the widespread power outages.

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in four New York counties on Sunday afternoon as those areas were dealing with widespread power outages in the aftermath of this week's massive storm.

Citing «widespread reports of heating outages» at more than 30 NYCHA developments across the city earlier this month, Stringer announced he would conduct a new audit of the agency's boiler systems.

Officials there said schools are closed Wednesday because of widespread power outages and downed wires through the city.

The Regional Chairman was speaking in an interview with host of Abusua Nkommo, kwame Adinkra in response to widespread reports of harsh power outages in the Ashanti Region.

Some 136,500 customers in Westchester County were still in the dark the next day when Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency and sent the National Guard to help deal with the widespread outages.

Moreover, following the widespread power outages that occurred during Superstorm Sandy, greater detail is needed on how the system would function in the event of a disaster that causes power outages.

Sandy's tidal surge and widespread power outages shut at least nine of 20 critical fuel terminals at the Port of New York's Linden, Bayonne and Newark shorelines.

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

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.

Thousands of schools on the East Coast closed due to the widespread power outages and flooding, many for all five days last week.

Lt. Col. Mark Jernigan, director of the city's Department of Public Works, answered residents» questions about widespread streetlight outages.

Puerto Rico is also experiencing an exodus of residents to the U.S. mainland — not surprisingly, given the painfully slow recovery from Hurricane Maria, including yet another widespread power outage in April — that will necessitate at least some of the school closings.

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.

Kevin Doyle, the executive director of CEA - Florida and a lobbyist for the group, said in his letter that Florida's electricity providers «should get some special attention» for their response to the widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Irma.

Launched in 2001 in response to the 2000 - 2001 energy crisis and market failure that resulted in widespread grid outages across the state, California's SGIP is one of the longest running distributed, «green» energy incentive programs in the world.

[1] Mass destruction of property, unprecedented flooding, and widespread power outages occurred in Southern Texas as a result.

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.

As we know from the 2012 Derecho, widespread power outages can disable a city for extended periods of time.

Recommendations for the private sector include urging companies to designate a point person for cyber recovery, update their strategic plans to prepare for a widespread Internet outage and the impact on movement of goods and services, and set priorities for restoring Internet service and corporate communications.

Even though Coinbase has operations in 32 countries, the unprecedented rush of activity caused widespread outages across the exchange platform on Thursday.

Google on Monday said that it has addressed a relatively widespread outage of its Google Home units that weren't responding to voice requests.