Power outage hits Georgia
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Electricity went out across a broad swath of the former Soviet republic of Georgia late Wednesday, leaving more than 1,000 people stranded in halted subway trains in the capital and sending authorities scrambling to make repairs after what they said was a power-line accident.
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At least 12,000 properties are without power after high winds bring down electricity poles in the West Midlands.
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COCOA, Fla.  - Hurricane Frances whipped off  roofs, felled trees and cut power to about 4 million people in  Florida on Sunday as the huge and powerful storm lumbered over  the state with ferocious winds and sheets of rain.
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OCTOBER 04, 2004  - Electric utilities in Florida have been able to leverage IT to help them respond to the widespread power outages caused by the four hurricanes that have hammered the state over the past six weeks.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has declared a state of emergency after sending in riot police to battle protesters demanding his resignation.
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Tens of thousands were without power  and schools were closed across parts of the central United  States on Monday after a storm dumped as much as 2 1/2 feet of  snow on some areas.
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The government on Friday declared a national electricity emergency and said it would introduce urgent measures to try to reduce demand and boost supply, as sweeping power outages caused chaos and misery across the country
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A technical fault at the main power  station in Bahrain on Monday caused a blackout that affected  most areas of the Gulf Arab kingdom, employees at the Hidd  power plant said.
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Thousand of homes across Northern Ireland are without electricity following overnight storms.
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Thousands of customers are without electricity in South Carolina, where a layer of ice as much as one half an inch thick is weighing down tree branches and power lines.
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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A snow and ice storm ravaging the U.S. Mid-Atlantic states early Wednesday knocked out power for more than 100,000 customers from Virginia to New Jersey, local electric companies reported.
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Hurricane Jeanne knocked out power to 250,000 Brevard County customers, though about 45,000 had electricity restored by Sunday evening, company spokeswoman Kathy Scott said.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - About 790,000 people remained without power in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley, and officials estimated it could take weeks to get electricity fully restored...
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Four million people were tonight without power in Florida as Hurricane Frances smashed its way across the sunshine state. The storm which has left thousands of British holidaymakers
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A fire at an electricity sub station leaves parts of Birmingham city centre without power.
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By James A. Jones Jr., The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 5--EAST MANATEE -- There is no argument that the area needs plenty of electric power and redundancy, so that the grid doesn't fail in a hurricane and leave residents in the dark for days and maybe weeks.