Sentence examples for blackout area from inspiring English sources

I WAS just outside the blackout area in August, but I may have been a victim nonetheless.

Speaking of which, you can watch a vast list of games — with the exception of those in your local blackout area — with a $100 subscription to MLB.tv.

In Cameroon earlier this year, people got around an internet blackout by typing up messages on phones and paying someone to haul them out of the blackout area and hit send.

Many companies that tried to manage their own disaster recovery plans, he said, found on Aug. 14 that the backup site they had created was still within the blackout area.

Most of the major credit card payment networks said that their systems were still operating, in some cases because of backup power and in others because their processing centers were outside the blackout area.

The data from there was compared with same-day data from Northern Virginia and western Maryland, outside the blackout area, and with data from central Pennsylvania from a day in 2002 when wind and temperature conditions were similar.

Customers of the wireless carriers T-Mobile and Cingular were also affected in the blackout areas -- particularly in New York City and other parts of the Northeast, where Cingular uses T-Mobile's network.

But FERC also soiled the proverbial carpet by blaming the state in part for the crisis that led to economic calamity and rolling blackouts in areas served by its main power supplier.

The government has halted deliveries of aid to the refugees and tried to impose an information blackout on the area.

It is shown that the islanding necessity is predicted correctly that helps to perform corrective actions such as controlled islanding execution to avoid wide area blackout.

The blackout affected an area encompassing about 670 million people, or roughly 10 percent of the world's population, though tens of millions of those people were already living without access to a regular supply of electricity.