Jose Gonzalez, assistant manager at the Big Apple Meat Market in New York, points to hundreds of pounds of rotten meat Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003, as it waits to be inventoried for insurance purposes following the blackout that hit much of northeastern United States and Canada on Thursday, Aug. 14, 20003. Gonzalez said the blackout cost him tens of thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
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