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en None of the power lines were designed to handle that kind of ice, ... our forest looks like it's been carpet-bombed, and everything above 15 feet (4.5 meters) has broken off like a toothpick.

en It was just the worst kind of conditions that you could possibly ask for. The freezing rain building up on the trees, building up on the power lines, and we've had numerous power lines down, along with poles that have broken in two.

en In emerging markets in various parts of the world where new meters are being installed, a lot of meters have electrical counters that are designed for use in the simplest meters. Microcontrollers may sometimes be used to count pulses and for more complicated things like LCD displays.

en All of the outages were weather-related - broken poles and power lines down. We expect all of the power to be up by 10 p.m.

en The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

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en The tunnel where we were trapped was about 60 square meters, like a big room with no windows. Fortunately, we found air blowing in from one of the two ventilation pipes, one of which was already broken. We also collected the water left in the drilling machine and a broken pipeline.

en I don't recall an early storm this bad, ... I don't think anybody predicted this kind of impact and this kind of heavy, wet frozen snow - there must be a tremendous amount of weight on those electrical lines and telephone poles, because they were just broken like toothpicks.

en They don't make them like that anymore. The standard size was 30 feet, but for some reason they built it 10 meters, or 33 feet.

en We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
  Ann Coulter

en If you've seen the horrors of war on the front lines, starving civilians, bombed-out homes, you can't be for war.

en I knew that all the way to Boulder Junction I had the power shut off. He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction. It was at least, I know to Manitowish Waters, where I work. The lines were, I believe, about 15 feet above the building at the lowest point.

en We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, most of our transportation systems. We are going to have a disruption to our infrastructure in a way that is going to take months to recover from.

en There were numerous counts of lines down and trees into power lines during the weekend. When an entire pole comes down, especially one with this many lines on it, it becomes a multifaceted job that runs into a lot of time.

en In general, you have to have a pretty serious market power concern before you go down this road [of price controls], because the chances of causing shortages and causing gas lines are quite significant. Hawaii seems to have designed this so it's much less likely to happen, and Hawaii has a credible argument to be made that they face a significant market power problem.


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