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670,000 Without Power in NYC; Flood Crests 13.88 Feet, Besting 1960 Record of 10.02 Feet; Wall Street Flooded
October 30, 2012 0

670,000 Without Power in NYC; Flood Crests 13.88 Feet, Besting 1960 Record of 10.02 Feet; Wall Street Flooded

By News Desk

Please consider Hurricane Sandy’s Waters Flood Blacked-Out New York City . Hurricane Sandy sent floodwater gushing into New York’s five boroughs, submerging cars, tunnels and the subway system and plunging skyscrapers and neighborhoods into darkness. Two deaths were reported in Queens and more than 670,000 were without power in the region as of 11:30 p.m.

Testing . . .
October 28, 2012 0

Testing . . .

By News Desk

The National Weather Service expects Tidal departures: between 2 to 3 ft above astronomical Tides tonight during high tide with locally higher values, 3 to 4.5 ft above astronomical Tides Monday morning, and potential for 6 to 11 ft above Monday night into Tuesday morning . The higher end of the range relegated to the New York Harbor, western Long Island Sound and the Long Island South Shore back bays .

Some Reading
October 28, 2012 0

Some Reading

By News Desk

david lewis said… I didn’t mean to imply Porritt was a Marxist – what I meant to write was that you can count on many who say they are inspired by Rachel Carson not to have read her.

This Modern Life
October 27, 2012 0

This Modern Life

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.