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Irene Forces Laptop Users To Find WiFi Outlets

by Craig Lemoult, WSHU Public Radio Group
August 30, 2011

In addition to the frustration of food spoiling in refrigerators and darkened homes, the loss of the Internet is heightening the anxieties of power-less utility customers. In some towns, free WiFi coffee shops have become a hot spot for the disconnected.

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  • Morning Edition, August 30, 2011
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