Weary Sandy survivors hunker down for storm: Like a repeat ‘nightmare’
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NEW YORK — As millions of Americans braced for a winter storm bearing down on the Northeast on Friday, people still recovering from Hurricane Sandy stood in line at gas stations to buy fuel and stocked up on wood for the fireplace. It was, one man lamented, “like a nightmare of Sandy all over.”
“There are lots of asteroids that we’re watching that we haven’t yet ruled out an Earth impact, but all of them have an impact probability that is very, very low,” Don Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said at a press briefing.
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Letters to Newtown:A new project from Ross MacDonald and Mother Jones, Letters to Newtown is collecting cards and letters sent to those affected by the town’s deadly school shooting.
Heartbreaking and likely to bring a tear to your eye, the blog is nonetheless an important reminder of the tragedy that took place just a few short months ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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100 days after Hurricane Sandy, the Jersey Shore slowly recovers
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LEFT: The Atlantic Ocean has breached the Ocean County barrier island in three places in the borough of Mantoloking, and created a new inlet at the base of the Mantoloking Bridge. RIGHT: This is what the Mantoloking Bridge looks like 100 days later.
