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Homeland Security
Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report
1 November 2011
Top Stories
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About 1.8 million people in at least five states remained without power October 31 after a
rare October snowstorm buried parts of the Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow. –
CNN (See item
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Six people were killed and two others injured in an October 29 grain elevator blast in
Atchison, Kansas, that destroyed parts of a grain-distribution building, and a concrete silo.
– Associated Press (See item
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October 31, CNN
– (National) Nearly 2 million without power as Northeast recovers
from storm. About 1.8 million people in at least five states remained without power
early the afternoon of October 31 after a rare October snowstorm buried parts of the
Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow. Utilities throughout the region reported
significant progress in restoring power, but the cold, snowy conditions and house-by-
house nature of the damage was slowing the work, officials said. The October 29 and
30 storm prompted emergency declarations from the governors of New York, New