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Addressing electric

By Sabrina Garone
Published August 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM EDT
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A utility crew works to restore power in Woodbridge, Connecticut, after a pre-Christmas storm caused widespread outages from the mid-Atlantic through the Northeast.
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A utility crew works to restore power in Woodbridge, Connecticut, after a pre-Christmas storm caused widespread outages from the mid-Atlantic through the Northeast.

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Sabrina Garone
Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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