Sentences with phrase «power than the storm»

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Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

More than three months after the storm, 1.5 million Puerto Ricans remain without power, and hundreds of thousands have no clean water.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

Indeed, nowhere are the barricades being stormed more aggressively than in PG&E's home, California, whose mandate for change is more audacious than any other state's: Its law requires that 50 % of utilities» power be generated by renewable sources by 2030.

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.

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years — swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

Since «customer» typically refers to a household, which can encompass several people, estimates indicate that more than 100,000 people haven't had power since the storm.

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.

FPL maintains the upgrades were only meant to help restore power faster after a storm rather than prevent power outages.

Since he stormed into the NHL in «05 - 06 and single - handedly reversed the fortunes of a moribund Capitals franchise, his 600 goals are 195 more than anyone else (Sidney Crosby) and his 225 power play tallies already rank 10th in history.

More than 900 voters in the Onteora Central School District braved the storms accompanied with power outages on Tuesday, May 15 to support the district's 2018 - 2019 budget and school bus propositions.

Hurricane Maria hit the islands as a powerful Category 4 storm, decimating infrastructure and leaving many of the more than 3.4 million US citizens without power, communications, or access to food, water, and fuel.

And, as Siena's Steve Greenberg noted, they are in a position to know, since 86 percent of Long Islanders say they lost power during the storm — half of them for more than a week.

At its peak, the storm knocked out power to more than 360,000 New Yorkers.

But Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in the Keys and Southwest Florida little more than two weeks ago, threw a monkey - wrench into the contest, temporarily putting campaign activities on hold after the massive storm knocked out power, internet, cable and mail delivery to much of the district.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged patience and caution as workers clean up after Tuesday's storm knocked out power to more than 200,000 New Yorkers.

There, a little more than two hours southwest of Houston, the Victoria Advocate has covered the story of Hurricane Harvey and the storms that have followed while dealing with loss of power, no water and a displaced staff.

He also said that, with another winter storm possibly hitting our region next Monday, more than 2,000 utility workers were out restoring power.

At its peak, the March 2 storm knocked out power to more than 360,000 New Yorkers.

This year's state money woes pale against the storm's aftermath, where more than 28,000 people on Long Island remain without power two weeks after Sandy hit.

A fierce nor'easter that flooded streets, snapped trees in pieces and knocked out power to more than 1.8 million homes and businesses continued to lash the Atlantic coast, but the winds were expected to slowly let up as the storm moved offshore.

Among the issues Ms. Harris pledged to address after securing the nod were recovery from Hurricane Sandy — a storm that devastated Coney Island but did little more than topple trees and knock out power in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Thursday that more than 5,000 workers from Canada, New York and six other states continue to repair power lines and clear trees brought down by Tuesday's storm.

New York State Electric & Gas said in a statement that at its peak, more than 24,000 customers were without power after the violent storms moved across the state Thursday.

«This discrepancy between 1D - and 3D - based calculations of the 1989 storm demonstrates the importance of realistic data, rather than relying on previous 1D models, to determine the impact that a geomagnetic storm has on power grids,» Lucas said.

The storm's power, he said, «was 50 times greater than all of the power put out by all of the stars in the universe put together.»

«Approximately 90 percent of outaged customers would have power restored in less than 26 days and 80 percent in less than 22 days, depending substantially on storm surge effects.»

Since then, the term has become ubiquitous, tossed around easily as news anchors rattle off the storm's mounting toll: 13 dead, more than 2 million without power at the storm's peak and yet - untold billions of dollars in damages.

The most infamous impact occurred in 1989 in Canada, when a magnetic storm interrupted electrical power for more than six million people for nine hours at a cost of over C$ 13 billion (# 6.6 billion, 9.3 billion Euros).

Although truly massive power - law events — like the Great Depression or killer storms — are drastically less common than smaller disruptions, they still occur.

Powered by a highly tuned, turbocharged 2.0 - liter four - cylinder gasoline engine developed by AMG, the all - wheel - drive A45 AMG is claimed to storm to 62 mph in just 4.6 seconds — straight - line performance that makes it 0.2 second faster than the Porsche 911 Carrera in the benchmark sprint.

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 storm caused dangerous flooding and storm surges and left more than 6 million people without power.

Now, with Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms to threaten the Southeast coast in more than a decade, and causing mass destruction in Haiti, Animal League America's Emergency Rescue Team is fully prepared to do everything in our power to provide shelter, food, medical treatment, and any other essential services to keep animals safe in the affected areas.

The newly announced game only has a CGI trailer with scarce information other than the fact the game will feature «Gigantic monsters, flying creatures, legendary heroes and storms of magical power take their place on the battlefield, alongside thousands of warriors clashing in real - time tactical battles» and that this is but one of two more stand alone installments making a trilogy of Warhammer titles.

«In the North Atlantic region, where tropical cyclone records are longer and generally of better quality than elsewhere, power dissipation by tropical cyclones is highly correlated with sea surface temperature during hurricane season in the regions where storms typically develop»

According to our analysis of southeastern Florida, 37 of 222 major substations and two small power plants in the mapped region could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today; the number of exposed substations more than doubles by 2050 and more than triples by 2070 as sea level rise drives storm surge higher and farther inland.

In our analysis of southeastern Virginia, 57 major substations (representing 43 percent of the total) and four power plants in the mapped region could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today, including more than 80 percent of the substations in Norfolk and Hampton.

According to our analysis of the central Gulf Coast, across the mapped region, 188 major substations (nearly 70 percent of the total) and 20 power plants (representing more than 9,300 megawatts of generating capacity) could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today.

According to our analysis of the Delaware Valley, 79 major substations (30 percent of the total) and 35 power plants (representing more than 8,800 MW of generating capacity) in the mapped region could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today; approximately one third of these substations could be exposed to floodwater depths of 10 to 15 feet or more.

More than 100,000 people lost power in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area on February 17 due to the storms.

Indeed, in New England, while wind and solar contributed less than 5 % of generation at peak load, the region's 6,200 MW of oil capable power stations contributed around 30 % of peak load on every single day of the storm, consuming on average 160,000 barrels of oil per day (p. 10), a total of 2 million barrels over the storm (p. 4).

The Category 4 storm has brought catastrophic flooding to the Lone Star State, leaving more than 200,000 people without power, Reuters reports.

A sixty percent lower figure for EROI of nuclear power than the 93:1 I quoted would still give a pretty acceptable EROI for tar sands, whereas very low estimates of the order of 7:1 which some use based apparently on Storm - Smith would be a lot more doubtful.

Of course climate change has been shown by scientists to make storms more violent than they would otherwise be, so if anyone should be blamed for SA's power blackouts it should be those who oppose taking serious action to reduce climate change.

On 3DMark's Ice Storm Unlimited test, the X power's score of 8,955 was slightly less than the Moto G4's 9,617, and just almost 45 percent lower than the 15,720 smartphone average.

Retail property owners in the Northeast seem to have fared better in the eye of the storm than their counterparts in other commercial property sectors, with loss of power being the most serious problem reported by the...