Sentence examples for crews power from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — Road crews, power company workers and plain old homeowners with shovels struggled in gleaming sunshine on Sunday to clean up from a weekend of record snowfall here, but they faced little hope of returning to normalcy soon because five or more inches was forecast within days.

For good measure — and perhaps for good luck — crews power-washed the stone.

Thomas H. Graham, president Pepco Region, said on Sunday that power crews might not be able to start restoring outages until Wednesday due to the predicted length of the storm.

Inside the tower, the construction crew power-washed more than a century of encrusted filth from the brick walls.

Sitting in third at 500m, the British crew powered past favourites Germany and Poland to lead at 1,000m.

By a week after the hurricane, utility crews restored power to nearly all major areas in Oahu, while 5,000 remained without power in Kauai.

Since then, crews restored power to most customers only to see additional work knock some of that power out again.

State troopers blocked off roads, utility crews restored power and people walked around, hushed and dazed.

Crews restored power to more than 9,000 of them by nightfall and hoped to have most service restored today, said Lee J. Olivier, president of Connecticut Light and Power.

While emergency crews routed power in from nearby neigh borhoods, policemen were as signed to major intersections to replace traffic lights affected by the failure.

Crews redirected power from cables on the outbound side, but by the time service had begun in the morning, they realized that there were additional cables that needed to be disconnected to ensure the safety of workers, the agency said.