Restoration of Service
After 3 hours, energy was restored in northern regions. Electricity was restored gradually in most places, and in most cities electricity were powered on again during the morning. Rolling blackouts continued to affect about 5% of the population on the next two days (29-30 September) as the electricity company ENEL continued its effort to restore supply.
Read more about this topic: 2003 Italy Blackout
Famous quotes containing the words restoration of, restoration and/or service:
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948)
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)