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Cities Brace For Power Outages As Another Nor'easter Hits U.S.

About 830,000 were left without power when a storm wind hit the northeastern U.S. last week. Some people are just getting it back.
This is the second nor'easter to hit the Northeast within a week, bringing snow and high winds, raising fears of another round of electrical outages.

You might want to get used to saying the word "nor'easter."

Just days after a storm with powerful winds left hundreds of thousands of people in the northeast U.S. without electricity, another storm is making its way up the coast in the same region.

This storm, which is thethrough the end of the week, the National Weather Service said.

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