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Lack of power puts damper on July 4th celebrations
Posted: 07.04.2012 at 2:18 PM
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Spectators watch fireworks at the University of Florida on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.  / AP photo
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic were preparing to spend the Fourth of July like the nation's founders did in 1776, without the conveniences of electricity and air conditioning.

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