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ReutersIrene cuts power to 1.8 mln, shuts refineries, nukesSun Aug 28, 2011 2:06am EDT
By David Sheppard and Joshua Schneyer
NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene knocked out power to 1.8 million homes and businesses, disrupted oil refineries and forced nuclear plants to reduce power as it barrelled toward New York City.
As the Southeast made small progress toward restoring power as Irene spun northward, blackouts in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey jumped.
Only 19,000 customers faced outages in New York City, but Consolidated Edison (ED.N) warned that downtown Manhattan, including Wall Street, could face further blackouts as low lying areas flooded.
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The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Port of Philadelphia, an oil hub, and restricted some vessel traffic at the larger hub of New York Harbor, which stayed open.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/27/national/main20098306.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaThe deaths blamed on Irene included two children, an 11-year-old boy in Virginia killed when a tree crashed through his roof and a North Carolina child who died in a crash at an intersection where traffic lights were out. Four other people were killed by falling trees or tree limbs - two in separate Virginia incidents, one in North Carolina and one in Maryland. A surfer and another beachgoer in Florida were killed in heavy waves.
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