The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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We have individuals who when it's zero visibility like that, they will actually close their eyes because the eyes do nothing underwater when you can't see anyway.
The irony beyond the historical reality that many investors were ultimately caught underwater when technology shares sagged, is that prudent investment advisors were telling clients all along to look at stocks the way they would look at their house.
Officer CAMPBELL: So we're swimming over to my friend's when my wife went underwater.
When a site is underwater it gives us the opportunity to see history in much more detail.
Millions more legitimate homeowners took all the equity out of their homes when times were good, and defaulted on their loans when their homes went underwater.
He sees a possibility that the Federal Reserve might want to, or have to, sell some of its assets at a time when the assets are underwater.
But here's the only catch -- and this is where you come in, because you're going to have to pressure Congress: The pool of folks who can refinance right now, when their homes are underwater, is still too small.
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In the early underwater scenes, when a robot-cam pokes around the wreck of the "Titanic, " with Bill Paxton and his team of hipster techies hovering in anticipation, the ocean debris flies right out at the audience.
"Terms like 'man cave, ' 'underwater' (when used to describe mortgages), 'earworm' and 'bucket list' paint vivid pictures in your mind, " he said.
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So for someone in that kind of situation, the reality is there's not much anyone can do when you're that far underwater.
More recently, beginning with the top in 2000, we can add another 11 years when buy and hold investors are underwater and waiting for the market to come back.
But Australian miner Eddie Sigai found himself on the wrong side of a crocodile when one grabbed his arm and dragged him underwater at a Queensland creek.
You know, I had him already--I had picked out the school he was going to go to when he was five already, which is underwater now and it's no longer there, you know.
The burn-off is part of the effort to prevent the spread of oil from an underwater well that was broken open when the drill rig Deepwater Horizon blew up and sank last week.
Mr. KURLAND: People who are fully able to pay, but when they've lost all of their equity or they're underwater in the property, there are many people that just want to walk away.
Underwater search teams had been looking for Michael Simpson, 22, when they initially saw Mr Marsom.
In entirely too many cases, the answer is fear not of physical death, but instead fear of our financial demise, which is often rooted in a fear of lifestyle reduction, which is often rooted in a fear of relative lifestyle comparison with our peers, which is especially ironic when you consider the millions of unemployed workers, bankrupt households, foreclosed homes and underwater homeowners.
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Since plan profitability is capped, and any excess earnings are clawed back by Washington, the insurers are better off aiming high when it comes to setting premiums (and owing an excess revenue back to Washington) then getting themselves caught underwater.
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