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  • 23
    Apr
    2013
    10:42am, EDT

    Under darkness, earthquake victims seek food, shelter and power

    Jianan Yu / Reuters

    Tents outside a hospital light up at night after Saturday's earthquake hit Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province, on April 22. Hundreds of survivors of an earthquake that killed nearly 200 people in southwest China pushed into traffic on a main road on Monday, waving protest signs, demanding help and shouting at police. The Chinese characters on the tent read "Disaster relief".

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    Medical personnel work with a flashlight in a temporary settlement in Lingguan Middle School in Baoxing county of Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 21.

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    Chinese soldiers cook breakfast in a rescue camp in Taiping town, Lushan County, Sichuan Province, China, on April 23.

    How Hwee Young / EPA

    Residents gather around a fire outside damaged homes in Taiping town, Lushan County, Sichuan Province, China, on April 23.

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    People gather at a power supply station in a temporary settlement in Lingguan Middle School in Baoxing county of Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 21.

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    A man works in a shed at a temporary settlement in Lingguan Middle School in Baoxing county of Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 21.

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    People fall asleep at the power supply station at a temporary settlement in Lingguan Middle School in Baoxing county of Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province on April 22.

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    Seems like China can help there people faster than America can during a natural disaster.

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  • 30
    Jul
    2012
    2:45pm, EDT

    Massive India blackout leaves 300 million without power

    Parivartan Sharma / Reuters

    Muslim girls study in the light of candles inside a madrasa, or religious school, during power-cut in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, on July 30. Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia's third-largest economy.

    Altaf Qadri / AP

    An Indian passenger sits as others sleep inside the compartment of a stationary train following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, on July 30, at a train station in New Delhi, India. A major power outage has struck northern India, plunging cities into darkness and stranding hundreds of thousands of commuters.

    Reuters reports -- A massive grid failure in Delhi and much of northern India left more than 300 million people without electricity on Monday in one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade.

    The lights in Delhi and seven states went out about 2 a.m and had not been restored by the morning rush-hour, leaving the capital's workers sweltering overnight, then stranded at metro stations in the morning as trains were cancelled.

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    Indian passengers wait for their train at a railway station following an overnight power outage in New Delhi, on July 30.

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  • 14
    Mar
    2012
    8:15am, EDT

    Transformer fire causes major blackout in Boston

    Scott Eisen / Reuters

    Pedestrians are shown on Boylston Steet after a transformer fire sent black smoke into streets and plunged parts of the city into darkness in the Back Bay section of downtown Boston on March 13. A three alarm fire caused power problems as citizens were warned to avoid the area avoid breathing the smoke according to officials.

    Scott Eisen / Reuters

    An police officer wears a protective mask as he helps load city buses after a transformer fire sent black smoke into streets and plunged parts of the city into darkness in the Back Bay section of downtown Boston on March 13. A three alarm fire caused power problems as citizens were warned to avoid the area avoid breathing the smoke according to officials.

    Scott Eisen / Reuters

    A police officer helps load city buses after a transformer fire sent black smoke into streets and plunged parts of the city into darkness in the Back Bay section of downtown Boston on March 13. A three alarm fire caused power problems as citizens were warned to avoid the area avoid breathing the smoke according to officials.

     From AP:

    BOSTON (AP) - A smoky electrical transformer fire on Tuesday forced emergency crews to shut off power to a large swath of the city's Back Bay section, plunging neighborhoods familiar to tourists from Kenmore Square to the edge of the Boston Public Garden into darkness.

    There were no immediate reports of serious injuries, but streets in and around the area were shut down, and hotels, bars and some homes were evacuated. Subway trains were not stopping at stations in the area. Massachusetts Turnpike exits leading to the area were closed.

    Click here to read more on the elecrtical outage in Boston.

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