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Guardsmen cut through fallen trees in ice-caked KY (AP)
Publication Date: 1 February 2009

Bob Goins walks through his darkened home Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, in Mayfield, Ky. More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained with out electricity following a powerful winter storm, though temperatures creeping into the 40s helped a swarm of utility workers make headway in restoring power.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - National Guard troops swinging chain saws made their way into isolated Kentucky communities Sunday to check on residents walloped by a winter storm that Gov. Steve Beshear called the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the state.