But getting two back-to-back storms of this magnitude doesn't mean the drought is finished.

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And now Claire mccaskill storms back into the meeting.

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Hundreds of thousands of homes have lost power in Alabama after a nuclear plant automatically shut when its power was knocked out by the storms, although back-up systems worked, said officials.

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"Storms out there are just awesome, " he says from his primary home back on shore.

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"If things go back to the long-term average, we're going to see many landfalling major storms -- much more damage, " he says.

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He would come back in the evening or maybe the following day, having slept who knows where, and the more storms and hunger he had endured the happier and healthier he was.

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