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Sabtu, 27 Desember 2008

Island of Oahu, Honolulu, Barack Obama on holiday, darkness

Island of Oahu, Honolulu, where President-elect Barack Obama the U.S. holiday, lighting darkness without electricity Friday (26/12) due to a transformer in the area was thunderstruck.

Some witnesses said it seems the electricity in the complex where Obama vacationing on the workers and hastily turned the emergency generator.

Spokesman an electricity company, Peter Rosegg, said the entire island wide area of 1,553 square km inhabited the 900,000 people affected by the influence. "We lost the last generator ... the whole area is now the island without electricity," said Rosegg. Traffic on major roads Honolulu also disrupted.

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann told radio station KSSK, take at least 12 hours or more may be to restore the situation. A transportation official told local radio that the aircraft-aircraft landed at the port of international air Honolulu, but to stay suspended landing.

The residents said this is the largest extinction since the earthquake that caused the darkness of the area in October 2006. A civil defense officials said, the possibility of lightning strike a transformer so that electricity is lost. Strong lightning was at the top of the island before electricity is suppressed.

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Source: AP