1.   Because the storm crippled the city for four days, it made a big dent not only in the dinner crowd but in breakfast and lunch customers too.

2.   George Ajlouny, manager of Best Western in Rocky Mount, said the storm is crippling his place.

3.   California faced the threat of rolling blackouts Thursday after an ocean storm crippled nuclear plants while other electric generating stations were shut down for maintenance.

4.   California narrowly averted rolling blackouts Thursday after a powerful storm crippled a key nuclear plant while other electric generating stations shut down for maintenance.