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Jonathan Palmer | STR - Sybol Close sits in her frigid Trowbridge Street home in Greenville on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. With no power and needing more than 5,000 dollars to repair her home she will be forced to move. (photo by Jonathan Palmer)
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Jonathan Palmer | STR - The home on Trowbridge Street in Greenville, Ky., was built in the 40's uses a fuse box to power the home. New code will prevent the utility company from restoring power unless the box is changed out. (photo by Jonathan Palmer)
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Jonathan Palmer | STR - Carson Dukes, center,his four brothers and sisters, and cousins watch Christmas movies at the shelter on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. (photo by Jonathan Palmer)
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Jonathan Palmer | STR - Crews from Lee Electric of Aberdeen, NC., work to restore power to the 6th Vein subdivision in Hopkins County Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. (photo by Jonathan Palmer)
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Utility companies can't restore power until families like hers make costly upgrades to their homes' electrical systems.

"This house only has an 80-amp fuse box. It was built back in the 1940s so it's not up to code," said Close, who has spent almost two weeks with her family at a Red Cross Shelter at First Baptist Church in Greenville. "The meter that's out there is the old meter, so until a new meter gets put in and a breaker box instead of a fuse box, they won't hook power up to it."