Deveon Brown (center) waits in a temporary shelter at the Boonsboro Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co. Inc. in Bedford County, Va., Friday June 29, 2012. Brown and other extended family members are visiting from Norfolk and have been staying at Eagle Eyrie nearby. A wave of violent storms sweeping through the mid-Atlantic following a day of record-setting heat in Washington, D.C., has knocked out power to nearly 2 million people. The storms converged Friday night on Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency after more than 500,000 customers in 27 counties were left without electricity. (AP PHOTO/Photo by Parker Michels-Boyce, The News & Advance)
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