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January 15, 2013
16:23 • 4 months ago

Sandy relief bill headed to the Senate following House approval

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  • $50B in Sandy relief funding was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, roughly two weeks after House Republicans shocked the nation by adjourning the 112th Congress without bringing a vote on any sort of disaster relief bill. Early reports suggest that most of the Sandy relief bill’s opposition actually came from House Democrats Tuesday morning, with a combined total of 52 members from both parties voting against the legislation. source

December 22, 2012
13:40 • 5 months ago

Crowdfunding’s role in supporting Hurricane Sandy victims

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  • $1.3M the amount raised by GoFundMe, over 320 individual campaigns totaling 14,000 individual donors, for Hurricane Sandy funding. ”There’s always going to be some sort of gap between when a storm or natural disaster or accident or tragedy happens and when larger organizations can step in and help, whether that’s an insurance company or FEMA or what have you,” said Brad Damphousse, the company’s CEO. “Our users get their money as it comes in, and donors know exactly where the money is going.” While not nearly at the level of the Red Cross ($300 million) or FEMA ($2 billion), the total is nonetheless impressive and proves that it works. source

December 7, 2012
08:49 • 5 months ago
Tags: unemployment business jobs united states economy economic sandy weather hurricane superstorm from breakingnews
breakingnews: BREAKING: US economy adds 146,000 jobs in November The U.S. economy added a solid 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures.AP reports: Hiring remained steady during the storm and in the face of looming tax increases. But the government said employers added 49,000 fewer jobs in October and September than initially estimated. And the unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent in October mostly because more people stopped looking for work and weren’t counted as unemployed. Photo: A man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in the Queens borough of New York on Nov. 27, 2012. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo) The good news: Things are improving. The better news: A tough month after Sandy didn’t crimp the improvement.

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BREAKING: US economy adds 146,000 jobs in November

The U.S. economy added a solid 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures.

AP reports:

Hiring remained steady during the storm and in the face of looming tax increases. But the government said employers added 49,000 fewer jobs in October and September than initially estimated. And the unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent in October mostly because more people stopped looking for work and weren’t counted as unemployed.

Photo: A man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in the Queens borough of New York on Nov. 27, 2012. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)

The good news: Things are improving. The better news: A tough month after Sandy didn’t crimp the improvement.

November 12, 2012
11:45 • 6 months ago
Tags: erosion coastal erosion hurricane sandy sandy hurricanes nyc new jersey es from wnyc

wnyc:

This series of images from the U.S. Geological Survey documents coastal erosion in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The yellow arrows indicate the same point on each image. 

Images documenting the storm’s impact on the New Jersey coastline are here.

Wow. Dramatic changes.

November 11, 2012
18:32 • 6 months ago

Assessing the damage: Trees damaged, cars destroyed, major electricity costs

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  • 8,577 the number of street trees toppled by Hurricane Sandy in New York City, according to the city’s parks department. Another 3,365 fallen limbs and 1,297 hanging branches also were reported, leading to thousands of service calls.
  • 330 the number of Fisker Karma vehicles that were destroyed by flooding at the Newark port. As the vehicles cost more than $100,000 each, the cost of the damage was over $33 million.
  • 31,000 the number of vehicles reported damaged to four major insurance companies — including State Farm, Progressive, New Jersey Manufacturers and Nationwide
  • $450M the estimated costs one of the region’s major power companies, Consolidated Edison Inc., estimated that they would have to bear due to the power outages caused by Sandy.

November 8, 2012
13:33 • 6 months ago
Tags: hurricane sandy hurricane sandy mta subway gif transit new york new york city es from wnyc
wnyc: The subway comes back, in GIF.  datanews: Since Sandy left town, we’ve been downloading MTA subway-recovery maps to feed WNYC’s Changing Trains map. Our Steve Melendez put them together in a time-lapse GIF. Click through to the full-size image. Great graphic — one that shows the speed of the recovery. 

wnyc:

The subway comes back, in GIF. 

datanews:

Since Sandy left town, we’ve been downloading MTA subway-recovery maps to feed WNYC’s Changing Trains map. Our Steve Melendez put them together in a time-lapse GIF. Click through to the full-size image.

Great graphic — one that shows the speed of the recovery. 

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November 4, 2012
22:52 • 6 months ago

Smart Way To Help Those In Need After Sandy

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evangotlib:

Some very creative folks started a wedding registry on Amazon.com for items desperately needed in Brooklyn.  One of the people behind this effort is a client of mine so I know for a fact this is 100% legit.

Please help them out…signal boost, buy something, whatever you can do.

This is smart. A very smart hack of Amazon.

19:54 • 6 months ago
Tags: hurricane sandy sandy nyc new jersey es staten island hurricanes
Stop what you’re doing. Look at these photos. Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera has gathered 60 photos of the destruction from Hurricane Sandy. It is worse than you think it is. Stopera’s only commentary — “These people need help”  — nails it. (Above: Breezy Point, Queens. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Stop what you’re doing. Look at these photos. Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera has gathered 60 photos of the destruction from Hurricane Sandy. It is worse than you think it is. Stopera’s only commentary — “These people need help”  — nails it.

(Above: Breezy Point, Queens. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

18:20 • 6 months ago
Tags: nyc new york city nyc marathon new york city marathon hurricane sandy sandy hurricanes es marathons runners
We’ve been training for a year. I think they did the right thing by canceling it. But what else were we going to do? We wanted to run.
Runner Ola Lilja • Discussing why she took part in what was described as an “underground” marathon in NYC on Sunday, despite the fact that the city had cancelled the official one. Thousands showed up to race anyway, with all the makings of the race — including the finish line — set up and security guards playing a role in keeping everything in line. Not everyone took part — many runners instead chose to travel to Staten Island, which was devastated by the hurricane, to help out.
17:27 • 6 months ago
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soupsoup: 90th St Station, Rockaways (at Rockaway Beach, NY)

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90th St Station, Rockaways (at Rockaway Beach, NY)

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November 3, 2012
13:33 • 6 months ago

Update: The slow recovery from Sandy — including power outages

Tags: hurricane sandy sandy hurricanes nyc subway es power outages numbers

  • 80% of the NYC subway system is working again, and Manhattan is reconnected with Brooklyn and Queens once more.
  • 5,800 Manhattan residents are still without power, though many residents regained power yesterday afternoon.
  • 2.4M other people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut still were waiting to get their power turned back on, but this number was declining. source

November 2, 2012
20:05 • 6 months ago

How Michael Bloomberg’s stance on the NYC Marathon evolved throughout the day

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  • first “They’re running this race to help New York City and the donations from all the runners in the clubs will be a big relief to our efforts.”
  • then “You have to keep going and doing things and you have to grieve. You can cry and you can laugh, all at the same time. That’s what human beings are good at.”
  • now “We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it. We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event—even one as meaningful as this—to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track.”

November 1, 2012
10:00 • 6 months ago
Tags: chris christie nj new jersey sandy hurricane es from inothernews
Preach it, brother.

Preach it, brother.

October 31, 2012
18:27 • 6 months ago
Tags: obama christie barack obama chris christie obama christie bromance sm bipartisanship president obama sandy hurricane sandy superstorm sandy christie sandy obama obama sandy christie storm
At the top of my list, I have to say that Gov. Christie throughout this process has been responsive. He’s been aggressive in making sure that the state got out in front of this incredible storm and I think the people of New Jersey recognize that he has put his heart and soul into making sure the people of New Jersey bounce back even stronger than before. So, I just want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership and partnership.
President Obama, returning the favor to Christie at a joint press conference today. Some have suggested that Christie is helping himself politically by embracing Obama, but that’s a dubious suggestion at best (just ask Charlie Crist). Regardless, it’s been heartening to watch this bromance emerge; here’s to hoping it sticks around after the storm is gone. source

(Source: usnews.nbcnews.com)

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