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• NYC’s subways rolling again, with limited service

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The cleanup of miles of New Jersey shorefront ripped apart by Superstorm Sandy has just begun, but New York City moved closer to resuming its normal …

• Search on for NYC boys ripped from mother by flood

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Rescuers in New York City are searching for two young boys who were swept from their mother’s arms by floodwaters. Police say the boys are a …

• Storm invigorates proponents of NYC sea barrier

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The vast destruction wreaked by the storm surge in New York could have been prevented with a sea barrier of the type that protects major cities …

• Guard evacuates people, takes in food to NJ city

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — National Guard troops delivered food and supplies to residents in this heavily flooded city across from Manhattan on Wednesday as officials sent out a plea for …

• Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to …

• NYC utility prepped for big storm, got bigger one

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Blame a very high tide driven by a full moon, the worst storm surge in nearly 200 years, and the placement of underground electrical equipment in …

• Region hit by Sandy struggles to resume daily life

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, but across the river in New Jersey, the …

• National Guard comes to aid of flooded Hoboken, NJ

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey National Guard arrived Tuesday evening in Hoboken to help residents of the heavily flooded city on the Hudson River across from New York …

• ConEd prepped for big storm, got even bigger one

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Blame a very high tide driven by a full moon, the worst storm surge in nearly 200 years, and the placement of underground electrical equipment in …

• ConEd prepped for big storm, got even bigger 1

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Blame a very high tide driven by a full moon, the worst storm surge in nearly 200 years, and the placement of underground electrical equipment in … 2

• Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Just eight months earlier, …

• Disarray, millions without power in Sandy’s wake

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World PITTSBURGH (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, …

• Crippled NYC subways could hamper storm recovery

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The floodwaters that poured into New York’s deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city’s recovery from the worst natural disaster in the …

• Tiny NYC beachfront burns in floodwaters

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner of the …

• Sandy’s death toll climbs; millions without power

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas waited wearily for the power to come back on Tuesday, and New Yorkers found themselves all but cut …

• Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The massive storm that pummeled the East killed 10 people in New York City and left the nation’s largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running …

• At least 80 flooded houses destroyed by NYC fire

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A huge fire destroyed 80 to 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues and injuring three people. More than …

• Water, fire and darkness: NYC after the superstorm

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World 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 … 3

• Superstorm now ashore, its work is far from done

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The storm that was Sandy isn’t done just yet. After lashing coastal cities and inundating parts of New York City with 13 feet of water, the …

• At least 50 flooded houses destroyed by NYC fire

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A huge fire destroyed at least 50 homes in a flooded neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. More than 190 firefighters were trying …

• Coastal areas bear brunt of Sandy’s damaging wrath

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A string of New Jersey’s barrier islands got cut off from the mainland by storm surges. Crashing waves shattered part of a landmark fishing pier …

• Superstorm Sandy causes flooding in New York City

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, …

• Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city’s historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and …

• Superstorm Sandy slams into New Jersey coast

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, …

• Superstorm Sandy takes aim at Atlantic coast

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Stripped of hurricane status but every bit as dangerous, the weather monster known as Sandy wheeled toward the New Jersey and Delaware coast Monday after … 1

• New Yorkers try for normalcy as Sandy approaches

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Defiant New Yorkers jogged, pushed strollers and took snapshots of churning New York Harbor on Monday, trying to salvage normal routines in a city with no …

• NYC waters rise to Irene levels before superstorm

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Waves splashed over the sea walls at the southern tip of Manhattan, already at Hurricane Irene levels Monday hours before the worst of a mammoth storm …

• East Coast grinds to a halt as superstorm nears

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard’s largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and …

• NYC braces for megastorm; evacuations ordered

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — After days of seeming to take a looming superstorm in stride, New Yorkers scrambled to gather supplies and get out of the way as forecasters warned …

• Sandy and storm surge pose ‘worst case scenario’

  October 28, 2012 in Nation/World KENSINGTON, Md. (AP) — The projected storm surge from Hurricane Sandy is a “worst case scenario” with devastating waves and tides predicted for the highly populated New York City metro …

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