By Daily Mail Staff and Wire Reports
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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.
People shop for food piled into shopping carts Wednesday on Brighton Beach Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York. People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
By Adrienne LaFrance
Digital First Media
NEW YORK – The last flashlights on the shelves were pink and dotted with flowers. A trio of Disney princesses smiled up from the packaging.
“Literally the only flashlights left at Target,” a Washington, D.C., man posted to Twitter on Saturday with a photo. That was two days before monster storm Sandy made landfall, and he was lucky to have found any at the Columbia Heights store.
By Ty McCormick
Foreign Policy
Hurricane Sandy’s pummeling of the eastern United States has already thrown the presidential campaign off course and disrupted early voting in several states, but could she be the deciding factor in this election? Political scientists have found that bad weather on Election Day typically benefits Republicans, but how much Sandy will affect voter turnout on November 6 remains a mystery. The same can be said of the potential political fallout from the storm. Will President Barack Obama look strong and commander-in-chief-like as he stares down the hurricane, as Sen. John McCain suggested in a recent interview? Or could inadequate disaster relief leave the president mired in a Katrina moment just as voters head to the polls?
If Sandy swings this election one way or the other, it wouldn’t be the first time bad weather proved historically decisive. From the French Revolution to the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, meteorological events have made all the difference. Here’s a list of six storms that altered the course of history.
The New York Stock Exchange, right, is lit Wednesday before it reopens for trading following superstorm Sandy. Much of lower Manhattan and the financial district are still without electrical power. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to rescue flood victims and fires still raged two days after Superstorm Sandy.
Neighbors work together in Pax to clear trees that fell overnight and blocked the road. Pax had more than a foot of snow by Tuesday morning (Tom Hindman/Charleston Daily Mail).
By Shay Maunz
Charleston Daily Mail
PAX, W.Va. – Donnie Williams and four other men stood in 18 inches of snow, wrestling with a tree trunk 18 inches thick.
That tree, felled by the snow and winds that tore through Appalachia Monday night and Tuesday morning when superstorm Sandy met land, was across a power line and into the road, cutting off residents of this dead-end road in the small Fayette County town of Pax.
By Jason Fields
Digital First Media
Tourists and tourism are suffering in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
The Associated Press
Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal.
Jason McClanahan, 38, and his son Ty, 15, shovel their South Hills driveway as snow from Hurricane Sandy hits on Tuesday. (Craig Cunningham/Charleston Daily Mail)
By Dave Boucher
Daily Mail Staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As they watched the converging weather systems over the past several days, forecasters at the National Weather Service offices in Charleston thought local residents would see little snow.
Instead, Tuesday’s snowfall far surpassed that of any October day and nearly equaled all of the snow that fell last winter.
The experts were caught a bit off guard, to put it lightly.
“I don’t know what happened between Friday and yesterday,” Faith Borden, the warning coordination meteorologist in Charleston, said Tuesday.
Transformers appear to explode Tuesday after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. After a gigantic wall of water defied elaborate planning and swamped underground electrical equipment at a Consolidated Edison substation in Manhattan’s East Village, about 250,000 lower Manhattan customers were left without power. (AP/Karly Domb Sadof)
DAVE CARPENTER, JEFF DONN and JONATHAN FAHEY
Associated Press
NEW YORK — 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 flood-prone areas for the most extensive storm-related power outage in New York City’s history.
It’s like what happened at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan last year — without the radiation. At a Consolidated Edison substation in Manhattan’s East Village, a gigantic wall of water defied elaborate planning and expectations, swamped underground electrical equipment, and left about 250,000 lower Manhattan customers without power.
Last year, the surge from Hurricane Irene reached 9.5 feet at the substation. ConEd figured it had that covered.
The utility also figured the infrastructure could handle a repeat of the highest surge on record for the area — 11 feet during a hurricane in 1821, according to the National Weather Service. After all, the substation was designed to withstand a surge of 12.5 feet.
With all the planning, and all the predictions, planning big was not big enough. Superstorm Sandy went bigger — a surge of 14 feet.
“Nobody predicted it would be that high,” said ConEd spokesman Allan Drury.
By Charlotte Ferrell Smith
Daily Mail staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Following the June 29 derecho, some West Virginians took steps to be prepared in the wake of storms and power outages.
That foresight is coming in handy now.
The storm that swept over the state on June 29 knocked out power for several days for many area residents. As this week’s winter storm approached, there were those who were ready.
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