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On the recordFebruary 14, 2017
It took an incredible toll on the electricity grid. More than 8.5 million households and businesses had outages.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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Pallone discusses the impact of outages on households and businesses due to grid issues.

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