Sentence examples for downed wires from inspiring English sources

Someone had heard that, because of all the downed wires, Northeast Utilities had had to shut down a hundred per cent of our Connecticut town — for seven to ten days.

Roberts said the damage was caused by winds, which pulled down trees and tree limbs, which knocked over polls and downed wires.

It's brush fires and downed wires and abdominal pain.

More threatening problems were downed wires and precariously hanging branches.

Drivers dodged fallen trees, downed wires and pools of standing water.

And in Fairfax County, downed wires closed Westmoreland Street near Orland Street in McLean.

Her mother, though tiny, took up a lot of room, "like a live downed wire".

As an alternative, Mr. Knight suggested, backcountry residents could agree to waivers freeing the power company from any liability in the event of a fire ignited by a downed wire.

Freighters had been tossed over Highway 90, snakes dropped from the trees, making you flinch when you saw a downed wire, and there were even carcasses of dead cows that had apparently blown in from Cat Island, one of the barrier islands to the south.

And while most experts advise that the safest thing to do is to remain in the car if there is a downed wire nearby, Michael G. Clendenin, a spokesman for the Electrical Safety Foundation International, an organization that educates the public about electrical hazards, said the circumstances in this case may have been more complicated.

One person died from electrocution after stepping on a downed wire on a flooded street.