Kilometres of power lines damaged, poles on the ground. Why is restoring the electricity taking so long?

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Kilometres of power lines damaged, poles on the ground. Why is restoring the electricity taking so long?

At 06:00 on Wednesday, electricity failed for more than 1 million people and businesses, “stolen” by Storm Kristin. Two days later, many of those people still had not had their power restored: by 16:00 on that Friday, 266,000 customers remained without power, with the large majority, 209,000, ...

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