About 40,000 customers have gone without regular electricity since Hurricane Maria hit on Sept. 27 and destroyed large swaths of Puerto Rico's infrastructure, including 80percentt of the island's power lines, according to the New York Times.
Large swaths of Britain's transport infrastructure were shut down or operating vastly reduced services yesterday and Heathrow airport suffered its worst day since the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
The Khedive's European creditors in turn installed themselves in his cabinet, and began to buy up large swaths of Egypt's land and infrastructure, while Ismail imposed steep taxes on the poor.
Faced with the possible demise of a broad swath of its retail infrastructure for music, movies and other media, Europe is, in some ways, merely catching up with the United States — and with the technological and economic forces that have swept through the entertainment industry.
Shale gas drilling would require a network of well pads, roads and other infrastructure over vast swaths of pristine land.
People in Africa use mobiles for online activities that others normally perform on laptops or desktop computers as the technology overcomes weak or non-existent landline infrastructure in large swaths of the world's poorest continent.
The definition of infrastructure.
Adequacy of infrastructure.
"Swaths of the park are inaccessible, there's just no infrastructure," he said.
Vast swaths of cities — homes, businesses, schools, health-care facilities, and infrastructure such as electricity grids and roads — have been destroyed.
These incidents, she says, demonstrate how cyber attacks can unintentionally impact broad swaths of the population — and show why nations need clear rules about cyber attacks on infrastructure.
