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Many trees and power-lines still litter the roadways after last Friday's severe storms on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. Thousand of homes are still without power. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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Many trees and power-lines still litter the roadways after last Friday's severe storms on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. Thousand of homes are still without power. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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Pastor Mochel Morris delivers her sermon outside Christ Crossman United Methodist church because the electricity was off inside their building on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. Thousand of homes are still without power after last Friday's severe storms. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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Pastor Mochel Morris delivers her sermon outside Christ Crossman United Methodist church because the electricity was off inside their building on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. Thousand of homes are still without power after last Friday's severe storms. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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Pastor Mochel Morris delivers her sermon outside Christ Crossman United Methodist church because the electricity was off inside their building on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. Thousand of homes are still without power after last Friday's severe storms. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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A demonstrator holds a slogan and a photo of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during a rally in Tokyo on Sunday, July 1, 2012, to protest the restart of a reactor at the Ohi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Utility workers secure power lines as their team repairs electrical wires downed by fallen trees in Springfield, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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On Friday, June 29, 2012, little remains of a structure that was burned by raging wildfires in the Colorado Springs, Colo., neighborhood of Mountain Shadow. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Fallen trees caused a great deal of damage at Congressional Country Club during third round play of the AT&T National golf tournament, Bethesda, Md., Saturday, June 30, 2012. The tournament was closed to the public on Saturday due to storms the previous night causing severe damage throughout the course. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

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A downed tree blocks a sidewalk in northwest Washington on June 30, 2012. More than two million people across the eastern U.S. lost power after violent storms hit the region. (Associated Press)