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Saturday, September 7, 2013

une panne de courant

a power outage

Après l’orage, il y avait des milliers de pannes de courant.
After the storm, there were thousands of power outages.

TODAY
Our topic is thunderstorms and their effects — les orages et leurs effets.

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