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					Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Central MD, USA 
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				Missed me
			 
 That's not a challenge, Eris.Sunday afternoon, we had a very sudden, majorly severe t-storm come through the area.  Not quite tornados, although it easily could have happened:  there were tornado watches. PEPCO/BG&E/Dominion Virginia had about 430,000 customers lose power:  the majority of them in my county. Weird thing is, about 15 minutes after we lost power, I uttered some random spell (not "lumos!") from the Harry Potter series (yeas, I've been re-reading them). Ths lights instantly came back on.
 
 There are still some people without power and will be until Friday.  And the local ISP & water companies were among those that lost power. I didn't get internet back until sometime this morning when I was asleep. Lot of traffic lights out, causing a lot of overtime for traffic control officers.
 
 And the storm has been blamed for at least three deaths in the area, plus one in Pennsylvania.
 
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