Some are plugged in with no power, others camp out
POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people from Illinois to New Jersey are still without power after a line of deadly storms struck last Friday. A week of more unpredictable weather and sweltering temperatures has followed.
POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people from Illinois to New Jersey are still without power after a line of deadly storms struck last Friday. A week of more unpredictable weather and sweltering temperatures has followed.
In West Virginia, the leader of the National Guard said he hadn't seen a more widespread power outage in the state in decades. In Ohio, the chief of a major utility said the damage was worse than what was caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike in 2008.
At least 27 people have been killed in the storms or their aftermath since Friday, not including deaths from heat-related causes.
Through it all, Americans have been getting by in their own ways, whether in the hollows of rural West Virginia or in the tony Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital. Here are a few examples of how they're doing it:
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