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• Cuomo likens Katrina, Sandy as damage total soars

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Superstorm Sandy in some ways worse than 2005’s Hurricane Katrina as he said his state would need $42 billion to …

• NJ Gov. Christie’s focus: Rebuilding, re-election

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to spend the next year leading efforts to rebuild his home state after Superstorm Sandy — and running for re-election. …

• NJ Gov. Christie’s focus: Rebuilding, re-election

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to spend the next year leading efforts to rebuild his home state after Superstorm Sandy — and running for re-election. …

• Cuomo likens Katrina, Sandy as damage total soars

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Superstorm Sandy in some ways worse than 2005’s Hurricane Katrina as he said his state would need $42 billion to …

• Cuomo: Sandy cost NY, NYC $42B in damage, loss

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Superstorm Sandy ran up a $42 billion bill on New York and the state and New York City will make big requests …

• AP IMPACT: NYC flood protection won’t be easy

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Inside tunnels threading under a Houston medical campus, 100 submarine doors stand ready to block invading floodwaters. Before commuters in Bangkok can head down into the …

• After Sandy, lower Manhattan limps back to life

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The hum of massive mobile generators, boilers and pumps emerges blocks from Manhattan’s Financial District and turns into a steady din south of Wall Street — …

• After Sandy, lower Manhattan limps back to life

  November 25, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Parts of lower Manhattan’s Financial District are still laboring to recover nearly a month after Superstorm Sandy. A real estate consulting firm says that of the …

• AP IMPACT: Will NYC act to block future surges?

  November 25, 2012 in Nation/World Think Sandy was just a 100-year storm that devastated New York City? Imagine one just as bad, or worse, every three years. Prominent planners and builders say now is the …

• Sandy victims cheered by NYC’s Thanksgiving parade

  November 22, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and elsewhere in the Northeast were comforted Thursday by kinder weather, free holiday meals and — for some — …

• Thanksgiving parade brings cheer to storm-hit NYC

  November 22, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off in New York on Thursday, putting a festive mood in the air in a city still coping with …

• Sandy victims prepare for subdued Thanksgiving

  November 21, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The things that Marge Gatti once cherished are lying on what’s left of her deck, spattered in mud, like a yard sale gone awry. The white …

• Rubble cleanup a massive task in NY, NJ

  November 20, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Just a few months ago, the parking lot at Jacob Riis Park on New York City’s Rockaway seashore was filled with happy beachgoers. Now, it is … 1

• Wind, rain pummel Pacific Northwest, cause 1 death

  November 20, 2012 in Nation/World SEATTLE (AP) — Residents in Washington and Oregon braced for more wet weather after a fierce storm swamped streets, toppled trees and large trucks, cut power to nearly 50,000 residents, …

• Wind, rain pummel Pacific Northwest

  November 20, 2012 in Nation/World SEATTLE (AP) — Residents in Washington and Oregon braced for more wet weather after a fierce storm swamped streets, toppled trees and large trucks, cut power to nearly 50,000 residents, …

• Study: NJ beaches 30-40 feet narrower after storm

  November 20, 2012 in Nation/World SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running …

• Study: NJ beaches 30-40 feet narrower after storm

  November 19, 2012 in Nation/World SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — A study has found that Superstorm Sandy washed away an average of 30 to 40 feet from New Jersey beaches, though some suffered five times …

• Obama vows not to forget storm victims rebuilding

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to stick with New Yorkers still struggling 17 days after Superstorm Sandy “until the rebuilding is complete” after getting an up-close …

• Amid political storm, Obama to view Sandy recovery

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — In the midst of a political tempest that has engulfed his former CIA director and his top military commander in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama traveled Thursday …

• What does it take to get people to flee a storm?

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders as Superstorm Sandy …

• Superstorm priorities for some include saving pets

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy roared into the lives of millions of people who’re now scrambling to recover — while also saving their pets. In New York City and …

• Many on NY’s Long Island still dark after Sandy

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Two weeks after Superstorm Sandy, while most utilities have restored electricity to nearly all their customers, there was one glaring exception Monday: a Long Island power … 1

• Gawkers head to NY’s storm-ravaged neighborhoods

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Garbage trucks, hulking military vehicles and mud-caked cars move slowly through a Staten Island waterfront neighborhood still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s storm surge. Then comes an …

• Laughing in the storm: Comics don’t shy from Sandy

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Dave Attell told a packed house at the Comedy Cellar that New York after Superstorm Sandy had a familiar feel. “It was dark. Toilets were …

• Laughing in the storm: Comics don’t shy from Sandy

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy is a punchline. That’s the word of New York comics who haven’t skipped a beat in adding the storm to their acts. Comedian Paul …

• As days without power drag on, frustration simmers

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, criticizing its …

• Delays in power restoration after storm anger some

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, criticizing its …

• About 150K in NY, NJ without power from storms

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — More than 150,000 homes and businesses in New York and New Jersey are still waiting for the lights to come back on about two weeks after …

• Sick, frail struggle most in storm’s aftermath

  November 10, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Some of society’s most vulnerable people — the elderly, the disabled and the chronically ill — have been pushed to the brink in the powerless, flood-ravaged …

• Drivers grapple with NYC gas rationing after Sandy

  November 9, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A return to 1970s-era gas rationing seemed to help with hourslong gas station lines that formed after Superstorm Sandy, but it didn’t end a fuel-gauge fixation …

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