RSS feed
A patient is wheeled out of Bellevue Hospital during an evacuation in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York October 31, 2012. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
After everything we’ve learned about those horrific days in New Orleans, how could another hospital in a major American city find itself without power, its staff fighting to keep alive their most desperately sick patients?
Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
By Bobby Bonett
Digital First Media
New York residents, politicians and media wrestle over whether the New York City Marathon, scheduled for this Sunday, should be postponed.
(Reuters) – Health regulators will delay decisions on some drugs for up to two days because of the massive storm Sandy, which closed the federal government.
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that the delay in meeting regulatory timelines for prescription drugs, medical devices and biosimilar drugs would apply to those with target dates around October 29 and 30, when offices were closed.
By Adrienne LaFrance
Digital First Media
NEW YORK — There were big, block-lettered instructions on the chalkboard in the window of Brooklyn’s Buschenschank bar this week: “Keep calm and drink on. We are open.”
Bottled water may be the official beverage on emergency grocery lists but many East Coasters were emphatic about ensuring an adequately stocked supply of beer and wine before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.
A a woman sweeps the street near a tree which fell across Brighton 6th Street in the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn in New York on Thursday. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
By Jacqueline Baylon
Digital First Media
NEW YORK – Bethany Fagan emerged from the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn on Thursday and was greeted by a transit worker with a megaphone directing people to the line for buses to Manhattan.
Unfortunately for Fagan, there were hundreds of people already in the line, which wrapped around the new Barclays Center arena.
“This is crazy,” she said. “I have never experienced something like this.”
By Jeff Edelstein (Columnist)
The Trentonian
Brian and Amy Dardis decided to stay at their two-blocks-from-the-beach Kearney Avenue home in Seaside Heights and ride out Hurricane Sandy. And everything was going OK. Until it wasn’t.
James Baniagua, with the IT department of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), removes payroll computers from company headquarters which is located in a vulnerable part of New York October 28, 2012. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
By Adrienne LaFrance
Digital First Media
NEW YORK — Here’s a call you never want to get: Your website is down because its servers are flooded in five feet of water.
As Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City, the storm’s destruction flickered across the digital world. Flooding to a Datagram’s data center in lower Manhattan dismantled a cluster of high-profile news and culture sites it hosts like the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Jezebel and Gawker.
AEP Linemen Greg Shenefield, 45, of Pikeville, KY, left, and Robert Hall, 47, of Hazard, KY use four-wheelers to search for downed power lines in the mountainous areas of Cabin Creek. They started their search near a church off Cove Road. (Craig Cunningham/Charleston Daily Mail)
By Zack Harold
The Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Craig Walters and his crew know they have work to do. They just don’t know where.
A blizzard brought on by Hurricane Sandy dumped inches of wet, heavy snow on West Virginia Tuesday, knocking out electricity to more than 100,000 Appalachian Power customers. And although linemen often use helicopters to scout downed lines, lingering rain clouds and high winds prevented them from taking off.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, is briefed by Jimmy Gianato, Director of Homeland Security at the National Guard Armory on Coonskin Drive before a teleconference with Liason Officers scattered thoughout storm affected areas of West Virginia. At left is West Virginia National Guard Adjutant General James A. Hoyer. (Craig Cunningham/Charleston Daily Mail)
By Dave Boucher
The Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than two-dozen members of the West Virginia National Guard stared at monitors and swilled coffee Wednesday morning as they helped coordinate storm relief efforts from the Joint Operations Center at the Coonskin Armory Complex in Charleston.
By Daily Mail Staff and Wire Reports
The Daily Mill
Republican House of Delegates candidate John Rose Sr., 60, was checking fences on his 100-acre deer farm near Philippi when a falling tree limb struck and killed him, his son George Rose told The Associated Press.
“It was a big limb. … I don’t even think he knew it hit him,” the younger man said Thursday.
Hurricane 
Subscribe
