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Florida Businesses Struggle To Reopen Without Power After Irma

Many are without power or phone service. Their ability to reopen depends on the restoration of electricity, but also on whether employees can get to work through blocked roads and downed power lines.
A person visits a Miami store that doesn't have electricity on Tuesday. Much of Florida was without power two days after Hurricane Irma battered the state. / Joe Raedle / Getty Images

Roughly half of Florida's homes and businesses remained without electricity on Tuesday, two days after Hurricane Irma plowed through the state. A lot of the business recovery efforts there will depend on how quickly power can be restored.

On her way to work Tuesday morning, Carol McDaniel, vice president of human resources for the Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in

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