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people they are comparing this outage to hurricane irene. statewide, it is on a par with hurricane irene. it s more spread out in some ways than hurricane irene was. meteorologists call this kind of storm a dericho. it s big front line wind storm, created by convection currents, 100 miles long. unlike most thunderstorms which create a grand squall, it comes in suddenly. the wind intensity built up again and again and again over about a half hour period where the wind gusts measured up to 80 miles an hour last night. they re expecting another line of strong thunderstorms to come through pennsylvania area tonight and this area. in fact, we ve just learned that a big thunderstorm is headed for orange county, virginia. expected to reach that area at 6:30 tonight. coming through to us, perhaps later in the evening. we ll be on stand-by for that. arthel, back to you. arthel: definitely not out of

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