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Hundreds of thousands without power days after Midwest storm

by Associated Press
| August 12, 2020 8:27 AM

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of households in Iowa and Illinois remained without electricity Wednesday, two days after a rare wind storm that hit the Midwest devastated parts of the power grid, flattened valuable corn fields and killed two people.

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