#power-outage

#power-outage

Ukraine and its neighbor Moldova both experienced power outages on Saturday amid problems on Ukraine's grid, officials said. The grid emergency caused a halt to Kyiv's water supply and metro operations, while most districts in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, were without electricity, they said.

Residents on Willoughby Avenue in Bushwick say their power has been in and out since Sunday morning.

Loading your fridge with frozen ice packs ahead of time can help keep it cool if the power shuts down, and grouping cold food together can help it stay cool even as the temperature warms. It also helps to have a separate cooler ready to move any perishable items into during a prolonged outage. But no matter how else you prepare, you should also stave off odors by using a sponge.

BROOKLYN, NY - Dozens of homes in Southern Brooklyn are without power after overhead wires caught fire, Con Edison officials said. According to officials, overhead power wires caught fire on East 48th Street between Church Avenue and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush just before 3 a.m. Wednesday. No one was injured in the fire, authorities said. On Wednesday morning, Con Edison officials reported that nearly 80 homes remain without power. Crews have been dispatched to the area and are working to restore service as quickly as possible.

Linda Williams, 86, has been without heating, lighting and a working phone for the best part of five days. She is trying to keep warm by layering up and she picks her way around her home in the remote Cornish village of New Mill with old battery lamps from her days of caravanning. I think it's safe to say that we're in a bit of a state, said Williams, a retired council accounts assistant. But it can't go on for ever can it?

"And we had to throw out every single thing in the walk-in," Wolfert said. "We had to get another Recology service to do a whole 'nother load because of how much stuff we had to throw away."

"The lapse \"resulted in NIST UTC [universal coordinated time] being 4.8 microseconds slower than it should have been,\" NIST spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said in an email. That's just under 5 millionths of a second. To understand just how brief an instant that is, Jacobson noted that it takes a person about 350,000 microseconds to blink."

Peter Karasev, 39, pleaded guilty to two counts of willfully destroying energy facilities in April for the incidents, admitting that he had used explosive devices he made himself to damage the facilities and spark widespread blackouts in the surrounding areas, according to a press release from the United States Department of Justice. He also admitted that the plans were deliberate and premeditated.

Wait, is back already? And audiences didn't even need to wait four years for it? The trailer for season two of the Emmy-winning drama is already here, just eight months after the first season finished airing. The high-intensity drama, which follows just one shift in its doctors' lives per season, sees the cast clocking in on the Fourth of July, when the surgeons will presumably have to deal with a slew of fireworks-related injuries. Plus, it's Doctor Robby's (Noah Wyle) last day before a hiatus.

An electrical fire at two residential buildings is now under control in Thorncliffe Park, according to Toronto Fire Services. The fire is affecting electrical power at 11 Thorncliffe Park Dr. and 21 Overlea Blvd., two buildings that are connected, according to Alex Vashkevich, a public information officer at Toronto Fire Services. An electrical panel was smouldering and the fire spread into the walls of the basement level where electrical panels are housed for both buildings.

Ask anyone in Catalonia about last April - they'll remember. A massive blackout left thousands suddenly powerless in every sense: no lights, no banking, no news, not even a way to heat water for a cup of tea. Shops shut down, lifts froze between floors, and digital-life-as-we-know-it simply... stopped. Now, Catalonia's government is saying something many didn't expect to hear from officials: Be prepared. Just in case it happens again.