At the height of the storm, about 100, 000 Kansas City Power and Light customers were without power, the company said.

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The ceiling is shoulder height, and you are trying to repair a piece of heavy machinery by the light of a small torch.

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She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.

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Throughout, the defining characteristics are expansiveness and light: Ceilings soar to double and triple height, and wherever a wall could be made of glass, it was.

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