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Long Gas Lines Bring New Problems to Hurricane-Ravaged States
Posted by Amy Sinatra Ayres on November 1, 2012 For residents of the states hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy, there’s a new headache in the storm’s aftermath: miles-long lines for gasoline. The problem has been worst so far in New Jersey, but some residents of New York and Connecticut have had to wait in lines for hours, too. Analysts stress that there’s not a…
Really Scary Movies: Films About Energy, Anxiety and Disaster
Posted by Glenn McDonald on October 31, 2012 As evidenced by all the October cable movie marathons, Halloween season is the time when people like to watch scary movies. I tend to watch an inordinate amount of scary movies myself, for reasons I probably don’t want to know. It’s no secret that horror films are often reflections of cultural anxieties, and many a…
Posted by At least 6 million people across the mid-Atlantic region are without power Tuesday morning after Hurricane Sandy inundated homes and underground infrastructure, toppled trees and downed power lines. Surreal scenes of a darkened Manhattan emerged after flooding and a substation explosion Monday night knocked out power for most buildings below 39th Street. A statement on…
The number of New York City area residents with no electricity shot up from 4,500 to nearly 350,000 in an eight-hour period Monday, as Hurricane Sandy made landfall just southwest of Atlantic City, N.J. Con Edison said it was forced to shut down power to lower Manhattan as a precautionary measure; the Battery Park area…
Residents and utilities along the East Coast are bracing for the worst of Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to bring winds up to 90 mph along with heavy rains when it makes landfall Monday. Billed as “Frankenstorm” because of the tropical hurricane’s collision with a cold front from the west, a full moon, and the…
