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Flooded roads and submerged cars are shown in downtown Norfolk, Virginia on September 18, 2003. Hurricane Isabel dealt the East Coast power grid a severe blow, knocking out electricity to more than 4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Pennsylvania. 'This is a record-breaking storm for us in terms of its speed, its swath. The storm is massive,' said David Botkins, spokesman for Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc., parent of Virginia's biggest electric company. Photo by Win Mcnamee/Reuters