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D.C. area thunderstorms knock out power across region Homes and businesses across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia lost power June 29 as one of the most powerful and punishing storms in months swept across the region.
These satellite images provided by NASA Earth Observatory, using data from the NASA/NOAA satellite S-NPP, show the Mid-Atlantic cities of Washington and Baltimore before an after electrical outages following severe summer storms. The top image, made June 28, 2012, shows normal light display in the area. In the bottom image, made June 30, 2012, extensive power outages in Washington and Baltimore are visible, while clouds obscure the lights of Philadelphia and other areas north and east of Baltimore.
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Randford Gass with E&E Powerline from New Brunswick, Canada, used a chainsaw to cut a utilities pole to the right height on 41st Avenue University Park. Gass and other members of the crew drove two 15-hour days to get to the area to help restore power after last week's major storm.
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Electrical crews install a new utility pole in Silver Spring. Millions of Americans headed for parades and fireworks shows to mark a sweltering Fourth of July holiday, some even celebrating as the nation's founders did: without electricity. Storm-ravaged states from Indiana to Virginia carried celebrations on Day 5 of a power outage caused by deadly winds ripping through the region. More than 1 million homes and businesses remained affected, and thousands of utility workers stayed on the job in a scramble to restore power.
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Ben Cushman returns to his home to inspect the damage to his house in Silver Spring after a deadly storm caused power outages across the Washington region. On the fifth day of the power outage, numerous Independence Day celebrations were cancelled in order to free up police and fire personnel for emergencies.
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Ben Cushman returns to his home in Silver Spring to inspect the damage to his children's bedrooms. A large tree crashed through the roof moments after Cushman and his wife got their children out of their beds during last Friday’s storm. Before electrical crews can come into neighborhoods to restore damaged power lines, the limbs and branches of destroyed trees must first be cleaned up.
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Beau, a guest of Dave and Mary Farling of the Mantua neighborhood of Fairfax, tries to cool off on a wet driveway. With power out for the fourth straight day and no air conditioning, several pet owners in Mantua provided their dogs with some relief from the heat.
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Beau, left, Biscuit and Abe cool off in wading pools in the Mantua neighborhood of Fairfax. Abe is owned by Dave and Mary Farling, Biscuit by Ted and Shannon Waters, and Beau was a houseguest whose owner is out of town.
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Debbie Reed holds up the warning tape as Michael Goo of Falls Church wheels a generator past downed power lines toward his home. The street on which Goo and Reed live has been cut off by downed power lines and all goods have to be ferried in and out by hand.
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July 3, 2012
A shopper buys ice at a supermarket in Falls Church. Ice has been in short supply as hundreds of thousands of residents in the Washington metro area have been without power since June 29 when a violent storm ripped through the region.
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July 2, 2012
Residents of the Skyland townhouses and apartment buildings on the 2300 block of 24th Street in Southeast Washington have been dealing with power outages from a storm that came through last Friday.
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July 2, 2012
Pascola Roberts hugs a subcontractor from Alabama. The subcontractors arrived at the Skyland townhouses and apartment buildings to help restore power to this neighborhood in Southeast Washington.
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July 2, 2012
Utility workers try to free up power lines after a huge tree fell across a major road in Falls Church.
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July 2, 2012
Pascola Roberts wipes sweat from her face in Southeast Washington.
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July 2, 2012
A Metro bus is parked and set up as a cooling station for residents living in the Skyland townhouses and apartment buildings.
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July 2, 2012
Residents like Juanita Hitchens, center, and her neighbors take in the air conditioning on a Metro bus set up as a cooling station in Southeast Washington.
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July 2, 2012
Jay Jeffries, a deliveryman for Hop and Wine Beverage, loads his truck with a shipment of products at Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria. The brewery is still without power due to Friday's storm. It has 13,000 gallons of five types of beer in the fermenting stage, which need to get to a generator to keep cool.
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Framed by utility lines that were knocked downed during Friday's storm, Eric DeSilva talks on his cell phone at his Arlington home on South Fourth Street.
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July 2, 2012
The remnants of a shattered utility pole litter the 4700 block of South Sixth Street in Arlington.
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Downed lines crisscross the street in the 4700 block of South Sixth Street in Arlington.
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The Goldberg family, from left, Oren, Elliette, Hannah, Laurel and their dog, Sophie, wait for Pepco to inspect the power lines outside their Verplanck Place NW home in Washington. A massive tree punctured the house when it fell during the June 29 storm. Several power lines snapped, littering the front lawn. A few are still intact, stretched close to the ground beneath the tree. "Before anything happens, they have to get here. It's not safe," Laurel Goldberg said.
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From left, Melissa Garay, Mark Garay and Ellen Garay relax with candles on a couch while Aaron Garay toys with an electric lantern in the basement of their Arlington home. "It's the coolest place in the house," Melissa said. The Garays lost power, the result of a storm that tore through the area June 29. During the day, the Garays joined hundreds of Arlington residents trying to keep cool at the library on Quincy Street.
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Marcia McCloud, right, and her great-granddaughter Makayla Milton find some comfort at the Red Cross cooling shelter at Sandusky Middle School in Lynchburg, Va. Milton was visiting her great-grandmother Friday when the storm hit, and the two were forced to find other shelter. McCloud explained, "It's like a vacation, vacation away from home!"
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Clarence Merkel of Pepco works on a damaged utility pole along Bradley Boulevard near River Road in Montgomery County.
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Luiz Paz, 26, shops for dairy at the Giant grocery store in Arlington.
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Francisco Melendec, 2, and his mother, Maria Callejas, nap on a cot in the Red Cross emergency shelter in the Northwestern High School gym in Hyattsville.They were part of 100 people who spent Saturday night at the shelter because of damage to nearby apartment complexes.
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Dheepak Raja, 30, of Bethesda, came to Westfield Montgomery Mall to charge his laptop and phone as well as to cool off. Violent storms ripped through the area Friday, leaving more than 1 million people in the D.C. area without electricity.
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Louisa Lee, center, with her twins, Allen Luk and Yvonne Luk, both 16, came to Westfield Montgomery Mall to cool off and recharge their laptops in Bethesda.
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Homeowner Dennis Grimsley wades through insulation blown from what's left of the second floor of his house after a large tree landed in his master bedroom in La Plata.
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Mike Wolfe's pickup truck lies under a fallen tree in front of his house after a severe storm in Falls Church. Wolfe's daughter created the "For Sale" sign as a joke.
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Lightning strikes behind a downed a large tree branch that blocked Patrick Street near the intersection of Cameron Street in Alexandria. The intersection is one block north of King Street.
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