06.07.2012, 10:30
Zitat:Pity the powerless: 500,000 still have no electricity after storm<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-east-coast-power-outages-20120705,0,3678024.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nati ... 8024.story</a><!-- m -->
By Jamie Goldberg
July 5, 2012, 11:55 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Most, but not all, East Coast and Midwest residents had regained power Thursday in the wake of widespread power outages sparked by last weekend's 600-mile-long band of storms.
More than 500,000 customers in the mid-Atlantic region remained without power amid an ongoing heat wave, according to estimates from local utility companies. In West Virginia, the hardest-hit area, more than 230,000 customers still had no power Thursday.
Utility companies were estimating that it could take until Sunday to restore power to all their customers.
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lol :mrgreen: