As it turned out, Consolidated Edison Company said, the problem was traced to three electrical lines on a network in Westchester County that just happen to power the entire city.
The school can't even use two new Xerox machines -- a gift from a benefactor -- until two new electrical lines are installed.
Quehanna has two paved roads open to vehicles, and is crossed by rights-of-way for three electrical power lines and two natural gas pipelines.
It owns a variety of energy assets, including three power plants in New England, electrical lines in Southern California and a gas pipeline being built in Texas.
A possible tornado struck the Little Rock Air Force Base, causing damage to at least four houses and knocking down electrical lines, a spokesman for the base said.
We headed west across a desert landscape, its monotony relieved only by a few sheepherders with their flocks, electrical lines, and, at one point, a dismally vast, utilitarian "new Benghazi" development being built on the plain by the Chinese — a soulless grid of hundreds upon hundreds of unfinished gray cement apartment buildings.
That link will require boring about 36 miles of tunnels through geologically complex mountains, building as many as six stations, erecting new high-voltage electrical lines and constructing a heavy maintenance facility.
But fire officials said the blaze apparently began and spread along electrical lines under the street, leading to three explosions shortly before 5 p.m. that one resident likened to the cannonading in Tchaikovsky's "1812" Overture.
Repairs of the electrical lines that power the trains were expected to take about two days, MTA spokesman Luis Inzunza said.
They are about eight feet wide and 66 feet long and are powered by overhead electrical lines.
Below the road surfaces lies a warren of water mains, electrical lines and gas conduits, which the agency says is one of the densest in the nation.
