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Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 2nd
By Mark Trumbull Economic impacts of superstorm Sandy are just starting to come into view, but what's clear is that they're big. The nation's economic capital, New York City, has been hobbled by electricity outages, floods, and damage to its massive subway system. From flooded Hoboken

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 2nd
By Mark Trumbull Economic impacts of superstorm Sandy are just starting to come into view, but what's clear is that they're big. The nation's economic capital, New York City, has been hobbled by electricity outages, floods, and damage to its massive subway system. From flooded Hoboken

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 2nd
By Mark Trumbull Economic impacts of superstorm Sandy are just starting to come into view, but what's clear is that they're big. The nation's economic capital, New York City, has been hobbled by electricity outages, floods, and damage to its massive subway system. From flooded Hoboken

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 2nd
By Mark Trumbull Economic impacts of superstorm Sandy are just starting to come into view, but what's clear is that they're big. The nation's economic capital, New York City, has been hobbled by electricity outages, floods, and damage to its massive subway system. From flooded Hoboken

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?

Economic toll of Sandy: Damage second only to Katrina?
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 2nd
By Mark Trumbull Economic impacts of superstorm Sandy are just starting to come into view, but what's clear is that they're big. The nation's economic capital, New York City, has been hobbled by electricity outages, floods, and damage to its massive subway system. From flooded Hoboken

Floods render NYC hospitals powerless

Floods render NYC hospitals powerless
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 1st
By DAVID B. CARUSOAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - There are few places in the U.S. where hospitals have put as much thought and money into disaster planning as New York. And yet two of the city's busiest, most important medical centers failed a fundamental test of readiness during

Power, transit outages will increase Sandy's costs

Power, transit outages will increase Sandy's costs
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 1st
By MATTHEW CRAFTAP Business Writer Widespread power outages and subway shutdowns may wind up making Superstorm Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history, according to the forecasting firm Eqecat. That would rank it right behind Hurricane Katrina. Eqecat said Thursday that the damage

Search on for NYC boys ripped from mother by flood

Search on for NYC boys ripped from mother by flood
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 1st
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 2-year-old and a 4-year-old. They disappeared Monday night when waves of water crashed into an SUV while they were being driven by their

Battered NJ confronts how to rebuild its shore

Battered NJ confronts how to rebuild its shore
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 1st
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MARYCLAIRE DALEAssociated Press LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - In its tear of destruction, the megastorm Sandy left parts of New Jersey's beloved shore in tatters, sweeping away beaches, homes, boardwalks and amusement parks. The devastation left the state a blank

A state-by-state look at superstorm's effects

A state-by-state look at superstorm's effects
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 1st
By The Associated Press The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 90 people in the United States. Power outages now stand at more than 4 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8.5