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		<title>Cecil County Storm Stories: Road, Emergency Crews Weather the Crisis; Sleepless in Cecilton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s heroes of the storm told the County Commissioners Tuesday of their long hours to clear roads, assist power companies and help individual citizens trapped by Friday night’s sudden, severe thunderstorm and winds that left downed trees, power outages and damage through a wide swathe of southern Cecil County. And County Health Officer Stephanie Garrity defended the county’s policy of not opening up designated “cooling stations” to residents sweltering in the weekend heat without power and air conditioning. She cited a John Hopkins University study that found heat-related deaths in the state were usually caused by complicating factors, such as age, alcohol use and other health conditions such as heart disease. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of Emergency Services, related that the county had no advance warnings of the storm threat from the National Weather Service but by late Friday evening state emergency officials sounded an alarm, followed by increasingly ominous watches and warnings. He said of particular concern was the presence of about 150 boats in the basin area at Chesapeake City, who had arrived in advance of the Saturday Canal Fest event. Emergency officials “went boat to boat,” beginning at about 11 p.m., to warn of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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