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The Grid and the Village : Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster /

In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes without electricity. In this riveting book Ste...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doheny-Farina, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
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