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A fire burns at least two dozen homes in a flooded neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens on Tuesday. A fire department tour guide jobs spokesman says more than 190 firefighters are at the blaze in the Breezy Point section. Fire officials say the blaze was reported around 11 p.m. Monday in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through earlier. (AP Photo)
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 tour guide jobs millions without power Tuesday as thousands who fled their water-menaced homes wondered when if life would return to normal. Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 48 people, many hit by falling trees, tour guide jobs and still wasn t finished on Tuesday. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western tour guide jobs 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. Nature, said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, assessing the damage tour guide jobs to his city, is an awful lot more powerful tour guide jobs than we are. More than 8.2 million households were without power in 17 states as far west as Michigan. Nearly 2 million of those were in New York, where large swaths of lower Manhattan lost electricity and entire streets ended up underwater as did seven subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn at one point, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. The New York Stock Exchange tour guide jobs was closed for a second day from weather, the first time that has happened since a blizzard in 1888, though it was to reopen today. The city s subway system, the lifeblood of more than 5 million residents, was damaged like never before and closed indefinitely, and Consolidated Edison said electricity in and around New York could take a week to restore.
Everybody knew it was coming. tour guide jobs Unfortunately, it was everything they said it was, said Sal Novello, a construction executive who rode out the storm with his wife, Lori, in the Long Island town of Lindenhurst, and ended up with 7 feet of water in the basement. The scope of the storm s damage wasn t known yet. Though early predictions of river flooding in Sandy s inland path were petering out, colder temperatures made snow the main product of Sandy s slow march from the sea. Parts of the West Virginia mountains were blanketed with 2 feet of snow by Tuesday afternoon, and drifts 4 feet deep were reported at Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. With Election tour guide jobs Day a week away, the storm also threatened to affect the presidential campaign. Federal disaster response, always tour guide jobs a dicey political issue, has become even thornier since government mismanagement of Hurricane tour guide jobs Katrina in 2005. And poll access and voter turnout, both of which hinge upon how people are impacted by the storm, could help shift the outcome in an extremely close race. As organized civilization came roaring back Tuesday in the form of emergency response, tour guide jobs recharged cell phones and the reassurance of daylight, harrowing stories and pastiches emerged from Maryland north to Rhode Island in the hours after Sandy s howling winds and tidal surges shoved water over seaside barriers, tour guide jobs into low-lying streets and up from coastal storm drains. Images from around the storm-affected areas depicted scenes reminiscent of big-budget disaster movies. In Atlantic City, N.J., a gaping hole remained where once a stretch of boardwalk sat by the sea. In Queens, rubble from a fire that destroyed as many as 100 houses in an evacuated beachfront neighborhood jutted into the air at ugly angles against a gray sky. In heavily flooded Hoboken, N.J., across the Hudson River from Manhattan, dozens of yellow cabs sat parked in rows, submerged in murky water to their windshields. At the ground zero construction site in lower Manhattan, sea water rushed into a gaping hole under harsh floodlights. One of the most dramatic tales came from lower Manhattan, where a failed backup generator tour guide jobs forced New York University s Tisch Hospital to relocate more than 200 patients, including 20 babies from neonatal intensive care. Dozens of ambulances lined up in the rainy night and the tiny patients tour guide jobs were gingerly moved out, some attached to battery-powered respirators as gusts of wind blew their blankets. Continued...
In Moonachie, tour guide jobs N.J., 10 miles northwest of Manhattan, water rose to 5 feet within 45 minutes and trapped residents who thought the worst of the storm had passed. Mobile home park resident Juan Allen said water overflowed a 2-foot wall along a nearby creek, filling the area with 2 to 3 feet of water within 15 minutes. tour guide jobs I saw trees not just knocked tour guide jobs down but ripped right out of the ground, he said. I watched a tree crush a guy s house like a wet sponge. In a measure of its massive size, waves on southern Lake Michigan rose to a record-tying 20.3 feet. High winds spinning off Sandy s edges clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie. Most along the East Coast, though, grappled with an experience like Bertha Weismann of Bridgeport, Conn. frightening, inconvenient and financially problematic but, overall, endurable. Her garage was flooded and she lost power, but she was grateful. I feel like we are blessed, tour guide jobs she said. It could have been worse. The presidential candidates campaign maneuverings Tuesday revealed the delicacy of the need to look presidential in a crisis without appearing to capitalize on a disaster. President Barack Obama canceled a third straight day of campaigning, scratching events scheduled for Wednesday in swing state Ohio, in Sandy s path. Republican tour guide jobs Mitt Romney resumed his campaign with plans for an Ohio rally billed as a storm relief event. And the weather posed challenges a week out for how to get everyone out to vote. On the hard-hit New Jersey coastline, a county elections chief said some polling places on barrier islands will be unusable and have to be moved. This is the biggest challenge we ve ever had, said George R. Gilmore, chairman of the Ocean County Board of Elections. By Tuesday afternoon, there were still only hints of the economic impact of the storm. Airports remained closed across the East Coast and far beyond as tens of thousands of travelers found they couldn t get where they were going. IHS Global Insight, a forecasting tour guide jobs firm, predicted the storm will end up causing about $20 billion in damages and $10 billion to $30 billion in lost business big numbers probably offset by reconstruction and repairs that will contribute to longer-term growth. Americans can also expect higher gas prices in the short term. The biggest problem is not the first few days but the coming months, said Alan Rubin, an expert in nature disaster recovery. Sandy began in the Atlantic and knocked around the Caribbean killing nearly tour guide jobs 70 people and strengthened into a hurricane as it chugged across the southeastern tour guide jobs coast of the United States. By Tuesday night, it had ebbed in strength but was joining up with another, more wintry storm an expected confluence of weather systems that earned it nicknames like superstorm and, on Halloween eve, Frankenstorm. Continued...
It became, pretty much everyone agreed Tuesday, the weather tour guide jobs event of a lifetime and one shared vigorously on social media by people in Sandy s path who took eye-popping photographs as the storm blew through, then shared them with the world by the blue light of their smartphones. On Twitter and Facebook, people tried to connect, reassure relatives and make sense of what was happening and, in many cases, work to authenticate reports of destruction and storm surges. They posted and passed tour guide jobs around images and real-time updates at a dizzying tour guide jobs rate, wishing each other well and gaping, virtually, at scenes of calamity moments after they unfolded. tour guide jobs Among the top terms on Facebook through the night and well into Tuesday, according to the social network: we are OK, made it and fine. Around midday Tuesday, Sandy was about 120 miles east of Pittsburgh, pushing westward with winds of 45 mph, and was expected to turn toward western New York state on Tuesday night. Although weakening as it goes, the storm will continue to bring heavy rain and flooding, said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Atlantic tour guide jobs City s fabled Boardwalk, the first in the nation, lost several blocks when Sandy came through, though the majority of it remained intact even as other Jersey Shore boardwalks tour guide jobs were dismantled. What damage could be seen on the coastline Tuesday was, in some locations, staggering unthinkable, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said of what unfolded along the Jersey Shore, where houses were swept from their foundations and amusement park rides were washed into the ocean. Beyond anything I thought I would ever see. Resident tour guide jobs Carol Mason returned to her bayfront home to carpets that squished as she stepped on them. She made her final mortgage payment just last week. Facing a mandatory evacuation order, she had tried to ride out the storm at first but then saw the waters rising outside tour guide jobs her bathroom window tour guide jobs and quickly reconsidered. tour guide jobs I looked at the bay and saw the fury in it, she said. I knew it was time to go.
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