A fire in the Bronx on Friday evening that killed three children was caused by candles that were apparently being used for light after power to the apartment was cut off because of unpaid bills, the authorities said on Saturday.
The storm damaged her roof, flooded her apartment and cut off power.
He pulled a ball cap over his gray hair, turned off his small, flat screen TV, cut off the apartment lights and locked the door behind him.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the supply of heating gas to apartments was never cut off, an accomplishment that the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta credited to the fact that "sly Viktor Chernomyrdin managed to 'rebrand' " the gas ministry and protect it from perestroika-era pressure to sell it off.
Once one of the city's most distinguished addresses, the Watergate complex these days is regarded as something of a yawn by most Washingtonians — an island of office space and aging apartments unto itself, cut off from the rest of the city by the Potomac River and highways, and far from trendier neighborhoods.
In that telling, it is an apartment building that is cut off; residents grow desperate, and cannibalism ensues.
But then after trashing your apartment, having your gas cut off, and waking up covered in candle wax without sleeping for three days because you decided to write a "meta-self-help book" cover to cover you realize it's a good time to take a short break.
That they barely speak to each other is in cautionary opposition to the verbal flood emanating from upstairs, and that the man and woman stay in the rear of the apartment so their heads are cut off from the audience proves to be remarkably eerie, an almost spectral warning.
As Fernlund explained, "The goal for everything we did was to add things we need to live now, without making them feel cut off from the apartment".
The plumber, shutting off the water in the bathroom, had cut off the water to the entire apartment.
