1.   Lightning or high winds can knock branches or whole trees on to power lines, cutting the electricity to an entire neighborhood.

2.   An Israeli missile strike at the beginning of the raid cut the electricity.

3.   Anti-aircraft fire lit the skies Monday over Kabul, where electricity was cut.

4.   Electricity was cut and the phones went dead.

5.   Electricity was cut off Thursday to some apartments, but not to other apartments in the same buildings.

6.   Earlier in the night, NATO bombers again cut electricity throughout the city, plunging it into darkness on a cloudless and moonless night.

7.   Israeli jet fighters also took out a power station in southern Beirut, cutting electricity to many parts of the capital and its suburbs.

8.   Israeli forces cut electricity to the city, which serves as the commercial and political capital for Palestinians.

9.   Mayor Juan Manuel Buitrago declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew and cut electricity in an effort to prevent fires from breaking out because of fallen wires.

10.   Ten minutes after she gave birth, the electricity was cut and explosions rattled the windows of the delivery room.