Huge Brazil blackout blamed on storm
Posted: November 12, 2009 at 5 a.m.
People eat by candlelight at a restaurant at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro during a blackout Tuesday.
Heavy rain, lightning and strong winds caused a blackout that left nearly a third of Brazilians — 60 million people — in the dark, officials said Wednesday as they scrambled to restore confidence in the country’s infrastructure before soccer’s 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
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