Word: shut
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...four of the 2,670 traffic lights in Miami--Dade County, Fla., went dark. A blackout, sparked by a fire, crept up the state, affecting 4 million people. Traffic choked the roadways. The nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point power plant shut down. As air-conditioning faded on an 84°F (29°C) day, thousands wandered into the streets...
...drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent a potentially dangerous blowout, the drillers shut vents at the surface, effectively corking the pressure inside the well. But it was too late. Water from a pressurized aquifer thousands of feet below the surface surged upward, picking up debris from a layer of mudstone as it did. Davies compares the effect to a bicycle pump. When...
...shattered by what should have been a small, isolated fire in an electrical substation on Miami's western fringe. A breaker shut down the facility, as it's programmed to do; but it failed to contain the problem, as it also should have, and so in response more than a dozen other substations in South Florida's electrical grid shut down as well. That caused a cascading regional grid collapse - including the Turkey Point nuclear power plant south of Miami - as electricity demand suddenly outstripped what was being produced. Some 3 million people from South Beach to Tampa to Daytona...
...that has been tasked with assisting in food production and distribution; it has set up various distribution centers - such as the one in the Caracas train station - around the country. The National Institute for the Defense of Users and Consumers, INDECU, has been regularly making enforcement rounds, and temporarily shut down more than 500 businesses that were guilty of selling food above the regulated prices during one week in January alone. The issue is increasingly volatile. Lootings have been reported at government-run food storage centers around the country...
...Despite this ominous start, freshman Corey Jantzen and sophomore J.P. O’Connor held their own and gave Harvard a brief sense of hope. Jantzen scored a fall against the Big Red’s Nick Bridge, while the second-ranked O’Connor shut out D.J. Meagher to close the gap to 9-10. The fall for Jantzen sealed his second win in as many days and put an uplifting note on the end of the season...