Power cuts to Tbilisi and virtually to all districts in eastern Georgia were caused by a breakdown on a high-voltage power transmission line. According to preliminary data, the transmission line was snapped by gale winds, a thunderstorm and a lightning, which put out of action a section of the power transmission line. Initially, electricity was not supplied to strategic projects in Tbilisi and other cities in Eastern Georgia. The trunk railway and the Tbilisi subway ground to a standstill. Water was not supplied to residential areas. True, according to the latest reports, power supplies resumed to the Tbilisi underground and other strategic projects in the city. A duty officer at the Inguri hydropower station (largest power station in the country) told Tass by phone that the hydropower plant “operates normally, and electricity is supplied to western areas of the country”, but power is not supplied to the country’s east over the breakdown on the Imereti and Kartli power transmission lines. (Itar-Tass)