About cut off electricity: is it proper to say like this? Formal: Notification We are sorry to inform you that our police bureau will be unable to provide service on July 10th because of the outage of electricity. The service will be retrieved tomorrow. Thank you for you understanding. Oral: Today,the police bureau will be without electricity for a whole day. So they don't work (or provide service?) today. can I say: The police bureau is out of electricity?