ISLAMABAD -- A rare countrywide blackout has left Pakistan without electricity for almost two hours overnight. The authorities blamed technical probl...
NEW YORK -- Here are some tips for communicating with emergency services and loved ones as a snowstorm bears down on the Northeast: __ Keep your phon...
NEW ORLEANS — The cause of a 34-minute blackout at the Super Bowl remains under investigation, but public records released Monday show that Supe...
As the long hours slipped by, something hopeful started to happen -- the urge for community began to overtake the feelings of despair. Neighbors in our apartment building propped open their doors and met in the pitch-black hallway. The kids entertained themselves.
We now recognize obsession as one of the classic and final stages of grief (storm-wise) as we try to will the Con Edison trucks to head to our neighborhoods.
While it is true that the Internet is an important and vital tool when it comes to information distribution -- it should also be noted that it can prove problematic for the public to gain access when the power is off.
There's only a fine line separating us from the 1920s, and that's our power grid.
Crashing at friend’s houses, blessing our gas stoves and plugging into trees, New Yorkers are all wondering -- why does it take the power so long to...
If you live on the East Coast and haven't looked at a hurricane sandy power outage map, now might be a good time to do so. Hurricane Sandy power outag...
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Some of these tips saved time and money. Others saved my sanity. So after you've gathered the canned foods, batteries and water, consider these.
With Hurricane Sandy hurtling toward the Mid Atlantic, utilities up and down the East Coast have put thousands of power line workers and tree-cutting ...
After a massive power outage left more than 300 million without electricity in Delhi and most of Northern India, things got worse on Tuesday. When...
It took a while to relax into powerless living. At the start, we wandered like zombies from The Walking Dead, aimless and without energy. What can we do without electricity?
Training and experience are a fisherman's best friend on the treacherous waters worked on "Deadliest Catch" (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Discovery). That's wha...
More than a few days without power -- especially in the blazing heat of summer -- would be enough to make anyone go stir-crazy. (This story has bee...
* Violent storms, heat kills at least 23 * West Virginia hardest hit state * Heat wave to continue throughout weekend ...
Just as the major currency of Hollywood is fame, here in the Washington area we deal in power: Who has it? How much? On the last day of June, many of us were reminded of what it means to be completely powerless -- literally.
Think the Washington storms and Colorado wildfires are isolated incidents? Talk to the people still recovering from tornadoes in Joplin, Mo. or Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf of Mexico or the 2011 Mississippi River floods that killed nearly 400 people.
For a few hours over the weekend, thousands of vintage-looking photos went unshared, online movies went unstreamed, and digital scrapbooks went unpinn...
The team faced an extra challenge on this week's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (Wed., 10 p.m. EST on CBS) when the power went out mere minutes into...
It made me wonder how people who lack the social support network and the financial means deal with stressful situations like the loss of a home or long term job loss.
The unusually early snowstorm bringing heavy, wet snow to the East Coast has knocked out power to more than 2.3 million homes and businesses. More th...
NEW YORK -- A power outage on the busy rail line between New York City and New Jersey stranded 1,500 commuters under the Hudson River for more than tw...
Here is the email I received yesterday from my lovely wife Coco... the subject was "Power": Is out at home. A transformer blew and there was a fire i...
