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Thu, 2012-11-01 12:50 — mdmcdonald
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Prevent Frozen Pipes - Homes Without Heat at Risk as Temperatures Drop

Mon, 2012-11-05 12:43 — admin
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New York Citizens' Views of the Impact of Superstorm Sandy

In homes without heat, home owners need to make sure their pipes are empty.  Water that's left in pipes, when frozen, will expand and potentially crack the pipes leading to damage that could have been prevented.

If you don't have heat in your home, get in touch with a plumber or emergency worker and make sure they blow out your pipes.

Picking Up After Sandy (with video)

Mon, 2012-11-05 11:24 — Albert Gomez

Picking Up After Sandy (with video)

Hurricane Sandy has come, gone and left a huge swath of the east coast reeling. Into that breach roll the waste collectors, gathering the debris, assembling and removing the waste scattered in the storm – doing their part to set things back to rights.

It’s virtually impossible to miss the pictures and the video of Sandy’s aftermath, and the damage is staggering. But we want to hear from those of you working on the front lines: the drivers, the collection workers, the operations managers – anyone with firsthand knowledge of the on-the-ground situation. What are you seeing? What challenges are you facing? Is it largely business as usual, or are you having to find creative ways to service your customers? We want to hear your stories, pictures and videos. Please share them by commenting here, contacting us via Facebook or Twitter, or emailing us.

In the meantime, may the rest of us keep those affected and the men and women aiding them in our thoughts and prayers.

Below: New York Department of Sanitation workers make creative use of a rear loader to clear trees felled by Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn.

Superstorm Sandy may lead to landfill gas explosions

Mon, 2012-11-05 11:20 — Albert Gomez

Superstorm Sandy may lead to landfill gas explosions

Superstorm Sandy may Create More Landfill Gas Explosions, Engineer Says

More landfill gas migration explosion incidents may now occur as a result of Superstorm Sandy, according to one industry engineer.

The region affected by the severe storm has one of the largest concentrations of old abandoned landfill sites in the world, said waste management engineer Steve Last, who has investigated landfill gas migration explosion incidents, worked for Houston-based Waste Management Inc. and done other consulting.  He said in a news release there are “undoubtedly many thousands of such sites.

Statement From US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano

Mon, 2012-11-05 11:14 — Maeryn Obley

November 2nd, 2012

The following is an excerpt. See the attached file for the full statement from Janet Napolitano.

 

We know that Staten Island took a particularly hard hit from Sandy.

 And so we want to make sure that the right resources are brought here as quickly as possible to help this community, which is so very strong recover, even more quickly.

What’s Really Happening In Blacked-Out Manhattan

Fri, 2012-11-02 20:02 — Maeryn Obley

Manhattan at night during the crisis.

Image: Manhattan at night during the crisis.

factcoexist.com - November 2nd, 2012 - Anya Kamenetz

The darkened stairwell of the tower on Broome Street on the Lower East Side is like a dripping, foul-smelling cave lit only by a few headlamps and flashlights. A group of eight 20- and 30-somethings are climbing to the top floor of the 23-story building to check on public housing residents who have been stuck without power or water since Monday night.

"Hello? Hello? We’re volunteers! Do you need help? Water? Agua? Ayuda?" The women do the talking in hopes that people won’t be intimidated. Theo, a resident on the 18th floor who escorts us up, says that this is a dangerous building in the best of times.

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Few Big FEMA Generators Humming

Fri, 2012-11-02 19:15 — Maeryn Obley

Video: Before Sandy struck, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said they had 400 industrial-size power generators ready to help the East Coast. Three days after Sandy landed, only a fraction of that equipment is actually providing power.

online.wsj.com - November 2nd, 2012 - Devlin Barrett

Before Sandy struck, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said they had 400 industrial-size power generators ready to help the East Coast. Three days after Sandy landed, only a fraction of that equipment is actually providing power, despite the fact that millions are still without electricity.

On Thursday, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said four generators were installed overnight. He said that by the end of the day, he expected there would be roughly 70 generators installed in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, but his figures didn't jibe with those from state officials.

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On Twitter, Sifting Through Falsehoods in Critical Times

Thu, 2012-11-01 22:27 — Maeryn Obley

A startling but manufactured image of the giant storm that made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook. Image: A startling but manufactured image of the giant storm that made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook.

nytimes.com - October 31st, 2012 - Jenna Wortham

During Hurricane Sandy’s peak, Twitter was abuzz with activity, as tens of thousands of people turned to the microblogging service for alerts, updates and real-time reports and photographs of the storm.

 Trouble is, not all of it was true.

Deliberate falsehoods, including images showing the Statue of Liberty engulfed in ominous clouds and sharks swimming through waterlogged suburban neighborhoods quickly spread through the service, as did word that power would be shut off for the entire city of New York and that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded.

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Superstorm Sandy: Surveying the Damage From the Sky

Thu, 2012-11-01 21:03 — Maeryn Obley

abcnews.go.com - November 1st, 2012