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A hapless rehearsal of future emergencies »

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Last Friday's power outage forced the White House to go to backup generators and left a 30-block section of downtown Washington darkened for nearly three hours. The blackout raises anew worries that the nation's capital still isn't prepared to respond to an unexpected crisis nearly seven years after 9/11.