New York City power outage affects 2,500 people
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Utility Consolidated Edison said on Thursday some 850 customers lost power in New York City's Upper East Side after fires damaged underground cables.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Massive Hurricane Frances trudged toward land with 105 mph wind and pelting rain late Saturday, knocking out power to 2 million people and forcing Floridians to endure a frightening night amid roaring gales that shredded roofs and uprooted trees...
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Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples.
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com. Perhaps it won&#39;t rank in the memory banks of New Yorkers to the extent the 1965, 1977 or 2003 blackouts do, but for the 53,530 in attendance at Yankee Stadium for Friday&#39;s
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Power came back hours after a rare outage  caused by an industrial accident affected large areas of Tokyo  on Monday, darkening homes and offices, trapping people in  elevators and disrupting transport and computer systems.
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New Yorkers pride themselves on their ability to handle almost anything: Blackouts. Sweltering subway stations. Obscenely small apartments at ridiculously high costs.
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Utility Consolidated Edison said on Wednesday some 136,700 customers were without electricity in New York's Upper East Side and in the Bronx after an apparent problem with transmission lines.
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Some 2.5m people are left without electricity in eastern Georgia after  two power lines are damaged, officials say.
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Utility crews have nearly completed the huge job of returning power to homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where as many as 600,000 customers were blacked out by last week's deadly winter storm
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MIAMI Florida&#39;s largest power supplier says electricity has been restored to &quot;essentially all&quot; of the more than three and a half million homes and businesses that lost power in Hurricanes Charley and Frances.
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New York City will spend $500 million   on a wireless data network for emergency services following   complaints that authorities had trouble communicating with each   other when responding to the September 11 attacks.
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Utilities in New York restored electric service to more than 20,000 customers in the northern part of the state on Wednesday after a fast-moving wind storm interrupted power to more than 100,000 customers throughout the day, companies said.
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Penn Station was evacuated and train service was halted for about three hours Monday after a fire erupted in a transformer beneath the East River, causing chaos for thousands of travelers at one of the nation's busiest commuter hubs.
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Utilities in the Central Plains have restored power to more than half of the 1.2 million customers who lost power during this week's ice storms, the electric companies reported Thursday morning.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 4  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While Con Edison crews work to restore electrical power to residents in Westchester affected by power interruptions caused by remnants of Tropical Strom Ernesto, the company is distributing dry ice to customers.
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Hurricane Ivan knocked out power to more than 1.2 million homes and businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida after slamming into the US Gulf Coast early Thursday, local power companies said.
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Penn Station has been evacuated and Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and NJ Transit train service has been suspended from the station amid reports of two fires and power outages.