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Four trains have broken down in the Channel Tunnel due to cold weather, as snow is expected to cause further disruption in parts of Britain. The temperature difference between the cold air and warm tunnel caused the trains to break down, Eurostar said. Passengers from two of the services have been moved to different trains; the other trains are to be pushed out. More snow and freezing temperatures are expected for parts of Scotland and south-east and eastern England. More than 2,000 people were trapped in the tunnel and some of the trains were without heating and lighting. Two further...

More than 2,000 people spent hours trapped inside the Channel Tunnel after four Eurostar trains broke down due to cold weather. The trains failed as they left the cold air in northern France and entered the warmer tunnel. Some passengers were evacuated to car shuttle trains, while others remained on the stranded trains overnight. Eurostar say the four trains have been moved from the tunnel and passengers are being transferred to England. Meanwhile, more snow and freezing temperatures are expected for parts of Scotland and south-east and eastern England. Heavy snowfall caused travel chaos, forced schools to close and cut...

Is a wood stove insert warmer than a regular fireplace, even without the fan (if there's a power outage)?

RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation for more than two hours late Tuesday, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline. Paraguay was also affected when the Itaipu dam straddling the two nations' border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at least several other big Brazilian cities, Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said. The cause of the failure had not been determined, but Lobao said...

<p>RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's two largest cities have been hit by a massive blackout that has also affected other parts of Latin America's largest nation.</p> <p>Media reports say problems at a huge hydroelectric dam are to blame for the electrial outages affecting large parts of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities in several states.</p>

A power outage at Metro's headquarters has led to massive problems systemwide, allowing people to ride some buses for free and shutting down WMATA's Web site, call center and e-mail alert system. Metro said it experienced a power outage at about 2:45 a.m. that took down the data center responsible for communication functions. Besides the Customer Call Center not being able to make or receive calls, Metro said the following problems have developed: Some Metrobus fareboxes are not functioning and if that is the case, customers are being allowed to ride without paying a fare. The NextBus system is not...

Things for FloydFest 8 were about as perfect as event organizers could have dreamed -- until about 8:10 p.m. Friday. That was when most of the grounds went dark. The next hour and a half answered the question: What happens when a large, electricity-driven music festival way out in the sticks loses power? The answers came quickly: Bands at stages small enough for intimacy went acoustic. As folks wandered away from the main stage, groups of musicians seized on the chance to strap on their instruments and perform along the main trail. Listeners gathered in circles around them, some in...

With nearly 1.5 million people in the mid-west without power during a cold snap, what other possible reason is there that this new "competent" administration and FEMA would be failing so spectacularly in helping in this natural disaster? It's got to be that Obama hates white people and wants them to die! Of course, I am just aping what lefty blogs were saying about Bush less than 24 hours after Katrina's hurricane winds stopped blowing. But AP is reporting that Midwest disaster relief people are none too pleased with our new president's FEMA. In Kentucky's Grayson County, there are 25...

PADUCAH, Ky. – Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.

On Sunday, September 14, winds of 40 mpt. with gusts of up to 60 mph related to Hurricane Ike blasted the Dayton/Cincinnati area. Power was knocked out for 100,000 people, stretching all the way to Columbus. Virtually all of Dayton was without power from approximately 3:00 pm. until (at my house) 2:15 in the morning. The good news is that original estimates were that it might take "a couple of days" to restore power. Entire trees were uprooted, roads closed with fallen trees and branches, and debris was strewn across roads. One shopping center at Cross Pointe lost its roof.

<p>Widespread power outages were reported Tuesday from Miami to Jacksonville on Florida's east coast and as far north as Tampa on the Gulf Coast, police and utility officials said.</p> <p>As many 800,000 Florida Power & Light Co. customers are without power Tuesday afternoon, the company said.</p>

Computer hackers have managed to shut down power to entire cities by breaking into the systems of electricity companies and then demanding money, a senior CIA analyst has claimed. Tom Donahue told a utilities security conference in New Orleans that all the successful hackings occurred outside America. He did not specify what countries were affected, when the power cuts happened or how long they lasted. Mr Donahue, who was speaking at the Process Control Security Summit, later said in a statement: "We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands."...

Zambia Hit by Nationwide Power Blackout Monday January 21, 2008 10:31 PM By JOSEPH J. SCHATZ Associated Press Writer LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Zambia was plunged into darkness Monday night in what appeared to be the second nationwide power outage in three days. The electricity network went down at about 7:30 p.m. and was restored about four hours later. There was no immediate explanation for the blackout. On Saturday, Zambia was without electricity for about eight hours, leaving more than 300 miners temporarily trapped underground in the country's Copperbelt province. It was not immediately known if any miners had been...

GAZA - Gaza's main power plant began shutting down on Sunday due to a fuel shortage caused by Israel's closure of the Hamas-controlled territory's borders, a move taken in response to Palestinian rocket attacks. The impact could be seen in many of Gaza's buildings, where lights were out and elevators stopped working. Stores in the impoverished territory, home to 1.5 million people, were running out of goods because of a surge in demand and lack of supply. Gas stations have been shuttered because of Israeli cuts in petrol and diesel delivery.... Kanaan Abeid, deputy chairman of the Palestinian Energy Authority...

Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands. Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week. Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong. Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was extortion, he said....

About 2,600 people were without power Saturday as the city's electrical grid strained in the midst of a statewide heat wave, which was expected to bring triple-digit temperatures through the Labor Day weekend. Highs were expected to reach 113 in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley and well over 100 in many other valley and desert areas of Southern California. At the same time, unstable weather caused by monsoonal moisture from the south prompted concerns of sudden thunderstorms in valleys, mountains and deserts. A flash-flood watch was in effect through Saturday for those areas in San Bernardino, Riverside and...

Samsung power cut may trigger flash crisis Samsung may face a major supply issue with flash memory in the wake of an accidental power cut, the company told the press on Friday. An interruption in power near one of the company's Seoul, Korea plants has forced the company to halt production at six of the factories that produce the NAND flash used by cellphones, portable media players, and other devices. The company estimates that its losses could tally over $54 million, while the immediate (non-contract) price of a standard chip has already climbed 9 percent as a result of the...

Excerpt - We've now learned more about the outage at 365 Main's San Francisco datacenter that knocked some of the Web's most popular sites offline. The latest theory: An employee, reportedly drunk, hit the emergency-power-off switch in 365 Main's Colo 4 room. Other sites located in other rooms were unaffected. This isn't the first time 365 Main has suffered an EPO-induced outage; a major one still remembered by customers occurred back in April 2005, and another took place last year. After the jump, a gallery of the carnage caused, and a roundup of reactions. Some of the affected websites --...

6 back-to-back power outages hit the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon causing major havoc with popular web services. 365 Main is down, along with craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, AdBrite and SixApart. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is currently working on the issue. It is now estimated that over PG&E 51,000 customers are with out power. So the big question, where is the backup power at the data centers used by these services? UPDATE 1: Digg is still up UPDATE 2: Some services, like Technorati are starting to come back online.

San Francisco -- California utility regulators approved rules Thursday banning power companies from buying electricity from high-polluting energy sources, including most out-of-state coal plants, to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming. The Public Utilities Commission voted 4-0 to adopt the "greenhouse gas emissions performance standard," which will prohibit utilities and other energy providers from entering long-term contracts with sources that emit more carbon dioxide than a modern natural gas plant.

(Windsor Locks-WTNH, Nov. 5, 2006 10:05 PM) _ Thousands of Connecticut residents have their power back on after hours in the dark. The outage impacted thousands of people in several communities in the northern part of the state. Around 6 p.m. Sunday a high transmission line coming towards Hartford County went down. A high transmission line carries loads of power and goes to a substation which then disperses the power. Connecticut Light and Power says they are uncertain why that went out. It affected 41,000 customers in Windsor Locks, South Windsor, Ellington and Vernon. Bradley International Airport lost power for...

All Western Europe touched by the electric breakdown PARIS - All Western Europe was struck Saturday evening by electric breakdowns related to an important failure of the German grid system of electricity, indicated in the night of Saturday to Sunday the Grid system of French electricity RTE. Some five million French, is approximately 10% of the population, were private of electricity on this occasion. "They are approximately 5 million consumers who were private" of current, with AFP a door of RTE declared. They "were gradually réalimentées between 22H30 and 23H00", it added. "Of the similar cuts took place in...

July 29, 2006 -- Last week's power outage in Queens was a "classic case of blunder after blunder" that smacked of either incompetence or negligence, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as Con Ed warned the coming heat wave could cause problems. Some Con Ed customers hit by last week's outage could lose power for around 20 minutes this weekend as crews transfer them from temporary generators back to the regular electric grid, the utility said. Also, Con Ed issued a statement yesterday asking people in northwest Queens "to limit their energy usage as much as possible while crews reinforce...

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were still without power Friday, the fifth day of a mysterious electrical problem that has been blamed for subway delays, flight cancellations and dead air conditioners during the hottest week of the year.

While her power was out for four days during last year's storms, naturally, West Palm Beach Public Library's Tina Albee turned to books to keep her occupied. This week, Albee discusses books to entertain children and adults during or after a storm -- just in case. Q. How did you get through last year's storms? A. I have hurricane shutters and I felt fairly secure during the storms, but it got pretty dreary at night without electricity. My most important indoor hurricane resource was a clip-on battery powered book light. Q. How long was it before your power was restored...

<p>PN is reporting a large power outage from Washington D.C. to New York.</p> <p>Newscopter Seven is live over the Northeast Corridor tracks in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Amtrak tells Eyewitness News that just after 8:00 a.m., a major power outage hit Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line affecting trains running from Washington, D.C. through New York Penn Station to Queens.</p>

We are on the market for a generator, and are wondering which brand to get, and what kind of fuel is safest, easier to obtain, or better all around. Also, which brands of generators are best?

RUFFIN -- A four-month-old northern Rockingham County infant was smothered to death early Friday as he lay between his parents who had huddled together during a power outage. Levi Garrett Wagoner, who was named in honor of his father's favorite chewing tobacco, was pronounced dead early Friday at Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville. "It's so sad and it could have happened to any of us," said Sheriff's spokesman Dean Venable. No charges are expected to be filed. Shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday, an ice storm knocked out the power in Levi's home at 197 Chilton Road. With no water or...

LOS ANGELES — A major portion of Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon and officials said early indications were that a power line was accidentally cut. Outages were reported from downtown to the coast and north into the San Fernando Valley according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. A Los Angeles Fire Department official said it appeared a line somehow had been cut. Terrorism was not suspected, according to police Sgt. Catherine Plows, though the Los Angeles Police Department went on "full tactical alert," meaning no officers were allowed to leave duty. Traffic was snarled at intersections...

SIERRA VISTA - Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative crews are planning to head to the Gulf Coast today to help make repairs to power lines in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area. The effort is in response to a plea from utilities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, where the hurricane caused an estimated $25 billion in damage - destroying homes and businesses, flooding the city of New Orleans and leaving more than a million people without power. On Tuesday, Jack Blair, chief marketing officer for the cooperative, said 17 employees from Willcox, Benson and Sierra Vista were tentatively scheduled to go...

Tens of millions of Indonesians have been affected by electricity cuts due to technical problems at a series of power stations. Homes and businesses were left in the dark across at least three provinces, including the capital Jakarta, and transport services were disrupted. Officials said they were still trying to isolate the cause of the problem. But they emphasised that the outage had nothing to do with recent power shortages caused by high oil prices. Indonesia faces an increasing energy crisis, as demand outstrips supply. The government has called people to conserve energy, to reduce demand on the national electrical...

MOSCOW - A rebel-linked Web site said Friday that Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev had claimed responsibility for the power outage that plunged Moscow into chaos two days earlier. [end] "Our sabotage units delivered a major blow to one of the most important life-support systems of the Russian empire," the Kavkazcenter site quoted Basayev as saying in an e-mail. [end] Russian officials have blamed worn-out equipment for Wednesday's power failure, which began with an explosion and fire at a 40-year-old substation. The Federal Security Service declined comment on Friday's claim and telephone calls to the Industry and Energy Ministry were not...

Airport power goes out FBI asked to assist with investigation By ADAM BERGSTROM and STEVE SCHULTZEabergstrom@journalsentinel.com Posted: Oct. 9, 2004 Passengers at Mitchell International Airport were temporarily grounded Saturday night after two large electrical transmission towers in Oak Creek collapsed and knocked out power to the airport and about 17,000 area residents. The airport was without power for nearly 21/2 hours, and Oak Creek police asked the FBI to assist in the investigation. "It does appear to be suspicious," said Oak Creek Police Chief Thomas Bauer, but he stressed that it was too early to say whether foul play was...

WTMJ-TV Milwaukee is reporting that the FBI says two electrical poles at Mitchell International in Milwaukee have been tampered with and is the cause for massive power outages in Milwaukee. Most of southern Milwaukee county is in the dark in cluding the airport. Nothing yet on Touchtmj4.com website.

Ok, nothing on the news about this as of yet, but sometime around 9:15 pm, a large section of the Bronx lost power. I'm getting this info off a hopefully reliable websource. I'm not sure yet if power is back, but I do know that the Yankees game went dark and so far, video feeds are not back up. Also, at about 9:00 pm, a large section of lighting was lost at the Philiy game (was watching this when it happened). This is probably not due to terrorism, but I thought I'd post this to give you guys a heads...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The power went out at Raleigh-Durham International Airport around 9:30 Sunday night. There are unconfirmed reports it was caused by the crasah of a small plane.

LAX hit by total power outage By Associated Press LOS ANGELES - A total power outage in the Los Angeles International Airport tower disrupted air travel Monday, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. All radar, radios and telephones _ essentially everything that controllers use to communicate with aircraft and other control facilities _ was hit by the blackout at 9:40 a.m, FAA spokesman Donn Walker said. Even the lights went out. Los Angeles-bound aircraft were being held on the ground at their departure points and flights out of Los Angeles International were being held at the airport, Walker said....

Mystery outage cripples Bellagio Strip property not expected to regain full power till tonight By FRANK CURRERI REVIEW-JOURNAL An employee stands in front of the Bellagio and a sign notifying patrons on Sunday that Cirque du Soleil's "O" has been canceled due to a power outage. Photo by Ralph Fountain. A power outage paralyzed gambling operations at Bellagio on Easter Sunday, sending workers at the five-star hotel scrambling to accommodate more than 1,500 inconvenienced guests. Bellagio's upscale clientele, who are usually pampered at the resort, awakened early Sunday morning to muggy rooms without air conditioning or lights, cold showers, and...

Italy Blackout Cuts Power to Millions46 minutes agoBy TOM RACHMAN, Associated Press Writer ROME - A massive blackout struck almost all of Italy early Sunday, leaving millions of people without power, stranding planes and trains, and leading to traffic accidents as drivers sped through darkened streets Most of Italy's 57 million people were affected — more than in North America's biggest blackout which left 50 million people without power in Canada and the United States on Aug. 14. As in the North American blackout, the early hours of Italy's power outage were filled with confusion as to the cause and...

The civil protection agency in Italy says a power cut has left large parts of the country in darkness. A spokesman said that as yet it was not possible to say how many areas were affected, or what the cause of the blackout was. The BBC's David Willey in Rome said he woke to find that there was no power at all, and only battery-powered appliances were working. He says that Rome, the Vatican and Naples are among the areas affected.

MY PAL Marty says he's seen the official reports so far of the power out that affected swathes of North America on the 14th of August last and it's not a happy story. The Joint US/Canada Task Force investigating the power down has so far isolated the time line of the cascade in the electrical grid on that day. Marty assures me that Adamson Rust's attempt to pin the blame on Chicken Little and Foxy Woxy is up to his usual lame standards. [Can't you get over this guy, Eva? Ed.] The time line is pretty much OK, though the...

<p>Two federal regulators were in the control room of a Midwest power grid manager as the nation's biggest blackout spread, giving U.S. officials an eyewitness account that could prove crucial to an investigation, authorities revealed Thursday.</p> <p>Even before the cascading blackout, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had been keeping a close eye on the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, now a focus of the broad inquiry into the failure to isolate the Aug. 14 crash.</p>

FRN Columnists' Corner "Out! Political Opportunity for Dems?" by JohnHuang2Lights Frustration and resentment boiled over all across the northeastern U.S., battered Thursday by the biggest power outage in history, zapping traffic lights, elevators, subways, and nuclear power plants from New York to Michigan amid blistering summer heat. Worse than the blackout of 1996 which cut power to millions in 9 western states in the heat of summer, federal and state officials however stressed there was no evidence the power failure involved sabotage. "One thing I can say for certain," said the President in California, "this was not the work of...

How vulnerable is the United States to attack from cyberspace? How imminent is the threat? Many experts believe the clock is already ticking, and that America is already fighting a Cyberwar... You can download and watch the whole show here. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/ Just click on "Watch the full program" at the top left.

US consumers were warned on Sunday they would bear the brunt of the cost of updating the nation's power grid - put by some observers at up to $50bn - following the biggest power failure ever to hit North America. As investigators struggled to establish the chain of events that led to the power cut that affected 50m people in the US and Canada, there were calls for the US to increase investment. Spencer Abraham, US energy secretary, said utility companies would pay some of the cost of improving the system, but much of it would have to be passed...

Critics attack vacationing Chrétien PM should have calmed nation: Layton Rough debut for preparedness agency TONDA MACCHARLES, BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH AND MARY GORDON OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA—With electrical power on just in pockets of the nation's capital, the federal government barely functioned at about 10 per cent capacity yesterday and faced criticism it was ill-prepared for the emergency. The government ordered all non-essential federal employees to stay home, but critics said Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who remained at his Shawinigan-area cottage throughout the outage, should not have been one of them — especially as the extent of the outage appeared to catch...

Power grids and blackouts Yep, the lights went out for 50 million people yesterday, and we still don't really know why it happened. Canada blames a fault in our system; we blame a fault in Canada's system, or a bad transmission line in the Midwest, but we're all sure it wasn't a terrorist. Why? Just because nothing blew up? Let's try a little experiment, change the word terror to sabotage. Sound any more likely now? The leading theory on the root cause of the failure, at least, the leading theory as I rode in to work this morning, was the...

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. today provided additional information on the status of its electrical system before and during the widespread power outage in the Northeast U.S. and Southern Canada that began on Thursday afternoon, August 14, 2003. Immediately following the outage, FirstEnergy's primary concern was restoring service to its 1.4 million affected customers. With service restored, the company is accumulating data and evaluating the status of its electrical system prior to and during the outage event. While it will take time for FirstEnergy and all affected utilities to complete this process, the company can report the...

The Associated Press NEW YORK Aug. 15 — After almost 29 hours in the dark, the lights were back on in all of New York City late Friday, ending a massive blackout that crippled the nation's largest mass transit system and left thousands of people scrambling to get home. "We are 100 percent back," Consolidated Edison spokeswoman D. Joy Faber said. Power was fully restored to all 3.1 million Con Ed customers at 9:03 p.m. Still, the city was not completely recovered from the outage, which affected about 50 million people in eight states and Ontario. Subway service was still...

I devote a great deal of time to bashing certain conservatives for their support of the Iraq war, so now in celebration of A Cry for Help's becoming A Fair and Balanced Cry for Help, I'm going to balance things out a bit by taking aim at the Left. Widespread power outages are also being reported in Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo, as well as in Toronto, Ottawa and throughout Ontario (The Agonist) The Northeast USA (and Ontario, Canada) went dark the other day when a power station in New York state gave up the ghost; knocking out a significant chunk...