Gas Lines Stretch for More Than Hour
Residents trying to gas up in New Jersey are in for a long wait. Lines at stations that have power stretched for more than an hour in the parts of the state hit hardest...
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Death toll up, gasoline lines grow in monster storm’s wake
(Reuters) – New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days on Thursday and the death toll continued to rise from the former hurricane Sandy, one of...
Sandy aftermath: Aerial video of devastation in New York, New Jersey
Aerial footage filmed on Tuesday shows the aftermath of a huge fire in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, which destroyed 80 to 100 houses. Meanwhile, Lower Manhattan still has residual flooding from superstorm Sandy, although...
Bananas could replace potatoes in warming world
Climate change could lead to crops from the banana family becoming a critical food source for millions of people, a new report says. Researchers from the CGIAR agricultural partnership say the fruit might replace...
Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast U.S. telecom networks
(Reuters) – Power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy disrupted telecommunications services in Northeastern states on Tuesday, resulting in spotty coverage for cellphones, television, home telephones and Internet services. While all the region’s...
Inside NYC hospital’s near disaster during Sandy
(CBS News) It was an extraordinary scene at NYU Langone Medical Center after the main and backup power generators failed. The stakes could not have been higher. When I arrived shortly before midnight yesterday,...
Eastern U.S. shocked by massive damage, flooding from Sandy – Rough Cuts
Sandy killed at least 15 people along the Eastern Seaboard as its powerful storm surge and high winds flooded beach communities in New Jersey and New England and cut power to more than 7...
At least 17 dead, millions without power in Sandy’s aftermath
As Superstorm Sandy churned slowly inland, millions along the U.S. East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, and huge swaths of New York City were unusually dark and abandoned. At least 17...
Northeast braces for worst as Hurricane Sandy pounds Cuba
MANZANILLO, Cuba – Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds that ripped the roofs off homes and damaged fragile coffee and...
Hurricane Sandy shows similarities to ‘perfect storm’
Weather forecasters are keeping their eye on Hurricane Sandy, which could potentially affect residents from Florida to northern New England. Although the forecasters caution that the computer models are still divided over the future...
