31.   Mashimba said six men broke into his office Monday night and stole only the drug samples, leaving other items like a portable generator and table fan untouched.

32.   Officials cut electricity to the area to limit the possibility of short circuits, and firefighters used portable generators to power floodlights trained on the blaze.

33.   On Wednesday morning, the smell of natural gas and the sound of portable generators hung over the site.

34.   Portable generators hummed on sidewalks.

35.   Portable generators were also on the way.

36.   Some companies can fire portable generators to power their phone system with minimal disruption.

37.   Streets were crisscrossed with heavy utility cables and portable generators stand on sidewalks.

38.   Some raced to stores and stuffed shopping carts with bottled water, canned food, milk and batteries, and the truly nervous hefted portable generators onto truck beds.

39.   Some people bought portable generators and laid in supplies of bottled water and canned goods.

40.   The only electricity comes from portable generators, now scattered around battered and abandoned buildings.