By TED ANTHONY, ASSOCIATED PRESSPITTSBURGH (AP) — The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country’s most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on 21st-century lives, cutting off modern communication and leaving millions without power Tuesday as thousands who fled their water-menaced homes wondered when — if — life would return to normal.A weakening Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 48 people, many hit by falling trees, and still wasn’t finished. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western New York to dump more of its water and likely cause more havoc Tuesday night. Behind it: a dazed, inundated New York City, a waterlogged Atlantic Coast and a moonscape of disarray and debris — from unmoored shore-town boardwalks to submerged mass-transit systems to delicate presidential politics.Read More…
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Hurricane Sandy PHOTOS: Send Your Pictures, Videos Of Storm’s Devastation
As Hurricane Sandy barreled up the Eastern Seaboard over the last several days, the storm left a path of destruction in its wake.More than 8 million people in 18 states are currently without power due to the storm, according to the Department of Energy, and about 750,000 of those are in New York City, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, said at a press conference on Tuesday morning.SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOSRead More…
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Jeff Flake Has History Of Voting No On Disaster Bills
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, has voted at least five times against bills aimed at preventing and responding to disasters, in two cases even though a resounding majority of his own party supported the bill.Flake is a frequent “nay” voter in general, particularly on spending bills, yet he votes with the Republican Party nearly 90 percent of the time. His office could not be reached for comment on Tuesday morning, nor could his Senate campaign.Most recently, Flake voted against appropriations for disaster relief for the 2012 fiscal year, as did 65 other GOP House members and one Democrat, Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee. The bill was nonetheless passed by Congress and signed into law at the end of December 2011.Read More…
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NYU Hospital Evacuated After Generator Failure, Patients At Other NYC Hospitals Relocated
Details are still emerging about the evacuation of New York University’s Langone Medical Center, the sprawling hospital complex in Manhattan, following the failure of both its main and backup power generators Monday night. Lorinda Klein, a spokeswoman from NYU who was not on the scene, told The Huffington Post that staff and emergency personnel were continuing to evacuate patients on Tuesday morning, and that they were “hoping” to be finished by noon.Read More…
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NYU Hospital Evacuation: Hurricane Sandy Power Failure Moves More Than 200 Patients
NEW YORK — More than 200 patients have been moved out of a New York City hospital that lost power to other medical facilities.The evacuation of New York University Tisch Hospital began Monday night after a generator failure. It was completed Tuesday morning.Read More…
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Water, fire and darkness: NYC after Sandy
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels.Scenes of the damage were everywhere. At least 50 flooded homes in Queens caught fire and were destroyed. A hospital removed patients on stretchers and 20 babies from neonatal intensive care, some on respirators operating on battery power.Where usually bustling crowds and traffic jams streamed through sidewalks, streets and subways, they were largely empty. And high above midtown, the broken boom of a crane continued to dangle precariously over a neighborhood.”Oh, Jesus. Oh, no,” said Faye Schwartz, 65, Tuesday morning as she surveyed the damage in her Brooklyn neighborhood, where cars were strewn like leaves, planters deposited in intersections and green metal Dumpsters tossed on their sides.The storm was once Hurricane Sandy but combined with two wintry systems to become a huge hybrid storm whose center smashed ashore late Monday in New Jersey. New York City was perfectly positioned to absorb the worst of its storm surge – a record 13 feet.Continue Reading… … Read More
MTA spokesperson: New York City subway flooding ‘affects every borough’
The New York City subway system sustained serious damage due to floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy, and a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spokesperson said Tuesday morning that seven vital subway tunnels under the East River are flooded, in a historic disaster that “affects every…
