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Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll
Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterman returns an undersized lobster while checking traps in Mount Desert, Maine, in May 2012. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File) April 26, 2013 (Christian Science Monitor) -- From North Carolina to Maine, the wa...
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Storm Threatens Sandy-Devastated Northeast With Chilling Rain | Brian K. Sullivan
A damaged boat sits outside a destroyed mobile home in the Paradise Park trailer park in Highlands, New Jersey, on Nov. 3, 2012. Photograph: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A nor’easter may bring gusty winds, heavy rain and even snow this week across much of the U.S. East Coast that was hit by Hurricane Sandylast week. Winds of 45 to 55 miles (72 to 89 kilometers) per hour a...
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Sandy’s Blackouts Fall to 2.5 Million With New Jersey Worst Off | Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
Nov. 4, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Utility crews working around the clock restored power to more than a million homes and businesses yesterday, with New Jersey making up more than half of the 2.5 million still without electricity. By the fifth day after Hurricane Sandy struck, power companies had brought back the lights to 70 percent of the 8.5 million customers who lost it in the storm’s destructive pa...
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Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Nov. 3, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the pati...
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Sandy gives Vermont a pass | Anne Galloway
Early Tuesday morning, near Wesford, Vt. Photo credit: Sara Klemm, Burlington Free Press Oct. 30, 2012 -- (Vt. Digger) -- Vermont Emergency Management officials are reporting no widespread damage from Hurricane Sandy related flooding or high winds in Vermont. Though Sandy pummeled New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia with high winds and an ongoing storm surge, as the storm ...
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New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman
The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it comes ashore on Monday night, bringing strong winds and dangerous flooding to the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic states to New England, forecasters said on Sunday. Credit: Reuters/Keith Bedford Oct. 30,...
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Apocalyptoween | James Howard Kunstler
A satellite image of Hurricane Sandy, pictured at 00:15 UTC, churns off the east coast of the US Photo: NASA via Getty Images James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 29, 2012 With little to do while waiting for something possibly very bad to happen people tend to get jokey. That was how I felt about the election until Hurricane Sandy came along. For one thing, I happened to travel (by c...
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Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan
Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it whips a region of 60 million people with high winds and rain. The storm shut the federal government and state administrations from Virginia to Massachusetts. It halted travel, prevented U.S. stock mark...
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Worst Storm in 100 Years Seen for Northeast U.S. | Brian K. Sullivan and Matthew Brown
Oct. 26, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct. Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to create a system that would rival the New England hurricane of 1938 in intensity, said Paul Kocin, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Colle...
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Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi
Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post/Getty Images June 25, 2012 (National Geographic) -- Sea level rise on the U.S. East Coast has accelerated much faster than in other parts of the world -- roughly three...
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Seascape With Methane Plumes | John Michael Greer
Methane plume from the sea floor Oct. 25, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- In the wake of last week’s post, I’d meant to plunge straight into the next part of this sequence of posts and talk about the unraveling of American politics. Still, it’s worth remembering that the twilight of America’s global empire is merely an incident in the greater trajectory of the end of the industrial age, and part of t...
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