KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
MATTHEW 16:1-4
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
MATTHEW 16:1-4
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
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Government may pick up hotel tab for 34,000 Sandy victims
By Susan Cornwell | Reuters – 12:30AM NOV 6,12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government said on Monday it had ordered the suspension of some housing foreclosures in areas hit by megastorm Sandy and would help find hotels and motels to temporarily house some 34,000 people displaced by the storm."We don't want families to be victimized twice - once by the storm and once by a foreclosure," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan told reporters on a conference call.Donovan said he directed all Federal Housing Administration
lenders to impose a moratorium on any foreclosures for 90 days in
disaster-affected areas. The FHA backs about a third of all new
mortgages in the United States.Sandy slammed into the East Coast on October 29, hitting New Jersey and New York especially hard as it killed more than 100 people. Thousands of homes were destroyed or damaged.The Housing Department also said some 34,000 people
displaced by Sandy in New York and New Jersey are eligible for
short-term government-paid lodging such as hotels and motels.With the weather getting colder, the U.S. government is
trying to get disaster victims out of shelters and into hotels and
motels while it searches for longer-term solutions, such as rental
apartments.The hotel and motel rooms will be paid for by the
government under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program
for temporarily sheltering people, called Transitional Shelter
Assistance.This is not the same program that supplied FEMA
trailers after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. The trailers
traditionally have been considered more of a last resort, for disaster
victims whose needs cannot be met through home repair or rental units,
the Congressional Research Service said in a report about Katrina.The U.S. government also is trying to rush rental
assistance to Sandy victims who qualify, Donovan said. More than 32,000
applicants have been approved for expedited rental assistance for a
total so far of $95 million in aid, he said.
Donovan did not say how many of the 34,000 people eligible for the government-paid hotel and motel rooms lived in New York and how many in New Jersey.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday that an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people in New York City alone were in need of shelter, including 20,000 in public housing.
ROOM SERVICE NOT COVERED
FEMA's website says disaster survivors may be eligible to stay in hotel or motel lodging "for a limited period of time" and have the cost of the room and taxes covered by FEMA. Food and charges for telephones, room service and other amenities are not covered.At the peak of the program's use after Katrina, 85,000 households were in hotels across the country in October 2005, the Congressional Research Service said.
Hotels volunteer to participate in the program and FEMA has hired a contractor, Corporate Lodging Consultants, to help displaced people find the right hotel.They will consider factors such as where a person works, where children attend school and other relevant information, a FEMA official said.The government pays the same room rate to hotels that the government pays for federal employees on business, as set by the General Services Administration, a FEMA official said. These costs are shared between the federal and state/local governments on a 75/25 percent basis.In the case of New York City this could be quite pricey. The GSA pays $295 a night in November and December for federal employees on business in hotels in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.Atlantic City, New Jersey, is cheaper with a per diem rate of $96, according to the GSA website.FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, in the conference call with Donovan, said he was not familiar with the hotel rates that would be paid.
(Editing by Bill Trott)
SCHOOL IN SESSION
Most of New York City's 15,070 schools reopened but 57 suffered structural damage and needed to be relocated, 19 lacked power and another 16 were closed because they were being used as shelters, education officials said.Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed a director of housing recovery operations to assist the 30,000 to 40,000 people in need of shelter."We cannot call our recovery complete until every New Yorker has a place to call home again," said Brad Gair, a former FEMA senior official.Some 750 construction workers resumed rebuilding at the World Trade Center site known as "Ground Zero" since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Sandy's record storm surge caused the Hudson River to pour into the September 11 memorial and museum and temporarily stopped construction on two skyscrapers that have nearly topped out.New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into post-Sandy price gouging after receiving hundreds of complaints from consumers across the state.
Donovan did not say how many of the 34,000 people eligible for the government-paid hotel and motel rooms lived in New York and how many in New Jersey.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday that an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people in New York City alone were in need of shelter, including 20,000 in public housing.
ROOM SERVICE NOT COVERED
FEMA's website says disaster survivors may be eligible to stay in hotel or motel lodging "for a limited period of time" and have the cost of the room and taxes covered by FEMA. Food and charges for telephones, room service and other amenities are not covered.At the peak of the program's use after Katrina, 85,000 households were in hotels across the country in October 2005, the Congressional Research Service said.
Hotels volunteer to participate in the program and FEMA has hired a contractor, Corporate Lodging Consultants, to help displaced people find the right hotel.They will consider factors such as where a person works, where children attend school and other relevant information, a FEMA official said.The government pays the same room rate to hotels that the government pays for federal employees on business, as set by the General Services Administration, a FEMA official said. These costs are shared between the federal and state/local governments on a 75/25 percent basis.In the case of New York City this could be quite pricey. The GSA pays $295 a night in November and December for federal employees on business in hotels in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.Atlantic City, New Jersey, is cheaper with a per diem rate of $96, according to the GSA website.FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, in the conference call with Donovan, said he was not familiar with the hotel rates that would be paid.
(Editing by Bill Trott)
Sandy's aftermath causes nightmare commute, housing crisis
By Daniel Trotta and Philip Barbara | Reuters – 12:32AM NOV 6,12
NEW YORK/BELMAR, New Jersey
(Reuters) - Commuters battled unruly crowds and snarled traffic to
return to work Monday, a week after superstorm Sandy devastated the U.S. Northeast,
as authorities scrambled to clear debris ahead of more bad weather and
put special measures in place to ensure residents could vote in
Tuesday's presidential election.Many of Sandy's victims were still suffering, and
living conditions were harsh for tens of thousands of people unable to
return to their homes. Some 1.4 million homes and businesses were due to
endure another night of near-freezing temperatures without power or
heat.The devastation could also send ripples through Tuesday's presidential election, with President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney locked in a close race.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
announced that New Yorkers would be able to vote in any polling place -
instead of just their assigned location - by presenting an affidavit,
while in New Jersey storm-affected residents will be designated as overseas voters, allowing them to submit an absentee vote by fax or email.An exhausted region now faces the prospect of a new
storm. A strong "Nor'easter" was forecast to bring freezing temperatures
and more rain and wind by the middle of the week, possibly flooding
coastal areas that have yet to recover from Sandy."A 60-mile-an-hour wind with a street filled with all
sorts of personal belongings and glass and fixtures, you could have a
lot of dangerous material flying around," Cuomo said. "This storm on any
other given day I don't think would have been life threatening. In this
situation it's serious."Cuomo also ratcheted up his criticism of the state's
power companies. "The progress is unacceptable. To say that I am angry,
to say that I am frustrated, disappointed, would be the understatement
of the decade," he said.The U.S. death toll rose to at least 113, and thousands
of homes were destroyed or damaged by the gigantic storm, which slammed
into the U.S. East Coast a week ago, bringing a record storm surge that
flooded low-lying areas with seawater.Hurricane Sandy
killed 69 people in the Caribbean before turning its 80 mph winds on the
United States. More than 217,000 people have registered for assistance
from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency and about $199 million in has been provided, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said.
With the ground in coastal New Jersey towns still
saturated with ocean water, officials feared the Nor'easter could flood
them again.In Belmar, Lake Como and Spring Lake, they were taking
the precaution of pumping three lakes in these towns nearly to the
bottom so groundwater would leak into them and lawns could better absorb
the rain."By draining the lakes, we're lowering the water table
in the neighborhoods around them," Mayor Matt Doherty of Belmar said on
Monday. "We did this last year with Hurricane Irene and we found it made
a difference."Further help to disaster victims should be on its way
from New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen and other music stars who
raised $23 million from a benefit concert on network television.SCHOOL IN SESSION
Most of New York City's 15,070 schools reopened but 57 suffered structural damage and needed to be relocated, 19 lacked power and another 16 were closed because they were being used as shelters, education officials said.Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed a director of housing recovery operations to assist the 30,000 to 40,000 people in need of shelter."We cannot call our recovery complete until every New Yorker has a place to call home again," said Brad Gair, a former FEMA senior official.Some 750 construction workers resumed rebuilding at the World Trade Center site known as "Ground Zero" since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Sandy's record storm surge caused the Hudson River to pour into the September 11 memorial and museum and temporarily stopped construction on two skyscrapers that have nearly topped out.New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into post-Sandy price gouging after receiving hundreds of complaints from consumers across the state.
Consumers have
reported possible gouging for gasoline, emergency supplies such as
generators, hotels raising rates due to "high demand," and increased
prices for food and water, Schneiderman's office said in a statement. New York
state has an anti-gouging law that prohibits merchants from selling
goods at an "unconscionably excessive price" following disasters.
NIGHTMARE COMMUTE
With sizeable legs of the region's public
transportation network still hobbled by storm damage, people stood for
an hour or more on train platforms or street corners in New Jersey, Long
Island and Connecticut waiting for trains and buses, only to find many
of them too crowded to board.Service on many rail and bus lines was reduced, and the
New York City subway was running at about 80 percent of its normal
service. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York appealed
to commuters on the Long Island Rail Road to delay travel until after
the evening rush hour to avoid overcrowding.The commute from New Jersey was particularly trying.As a Northeast Corridor Line train on the New Jersey Transit
network pulled into Newark, passengers wondered aloud how the hundreds
of people who crowded the platform would squeeze into the already-packed
train.Federal agencies
were trying to secure about 350 buses to alleviate the nightmare commute
from New Jersey to Manhattan.Those who chose to drive had to brave long lines at the
pump before joining the traffic jams. Service stations lacked
electricity or gasoline due to disruptions in the fuel chain."It's not pretty,"
said Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline,
Convenience Store Automotive Association."We've got about 80
percent of the gas stations in the northern part of the state that
don't have either electricity or gas. I've got guys that have
electricity, but they don't have any gas left and I've got a lot of
people that have gas in the ground but no electricity," he said.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie imposed gasoline
rationing, while some New Jerseyans took to hiring school children to
stand in line with gas cans.In Maplewood, New Jersey, middle schooler Liam
Kafrissen, 13, leapt at the $20 offer while staying home on his sixth
canceled day of school.Pulling a little red wagon with three gas cans totaling
5.75 gallons (21.8 liters), Kafrissen smiled on his second trip back
from the Delta gas station close to his school, still shut without
power."And I'm still in my pajamas!" he said.(Reporting by
Reuters bureaus throughout the U.S. Northeast; Writing by Daniel Trotta
and Michelle Nichols; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
New Yorkers will be allowed to vote in any polling place: governor
Reuters – 12:30AM NOV 6,12
(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday New Yorkers affected by superstorm Sandy will be allowed to vote in Tuesday's U.S. election in any polling place by presenting an affidavit.
Cuomo said he was signing an executive order
on Monday that will allow voters to cast ballots at voting stations
other than the ones to which they are assigned. He said his order arose
from concern that hundreds of thousands of New York residents could be effectively disenfranchised by the damage to many polling places caused by Sandy one week ago."This executive order I am signing today is an
extraordinary step in that direction," Cuomo said in a news conference.(Reporting by Dan Burns; Editing by Will Dunham) Election poses new challenge to storm-hit Northeast
By Daniel Trotta and Philip Barbara | Reuters – 3:00AM NOV 6,12
NEW YORK/BELMAR, New Jersey (Reuters) - Already faced with a massive cleanup and nightmarish commutes to work, thousands of voters in storm-struck New York and New Jersey may have a tough time voting on Tuesday in a cliffhanger presidential election.Elections officials face unprecedented challenges
across the U.S. Northeast, where polling stations were among the
thousands of buildings damaged by superstorm Sandy eight days ago.New York and New Jersey
took measures to ease the way for residents already coping with
devastating flood damage, power outages and widespread fuel shortages.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said New Yorkers would be able to vote at any polling place by presenting an affidavit. In New Jersey, those affected by Sandy will be designated as overseas voters, allowing them to cast ballots by fax or email."We want everyone to vote. Just because you are displaced doesn't mean you should be disenfranchised," Cuomo said.The New York City Police Department
said police academy probationary officers would be called in to help
the force secure the city's 1,199 polling stations - 57 fewer than for
the last election.Sandy roared ashore on the Jersey coast on October 29
as a rare hybrid superstorm after killing 69 people in the Caribbean and
then merging with a strong North Atlantic system.
It killed at least 113 in the United States and knocked out power to millions of people while swamping seaside towns and inundating New York City's streets and subway tunnels.While President Barack Obama was expected to win easily in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the states most affected by Sandy, the storm could expose fissures in the arcane Electoral College system that decides the presidency.One possibility is that low voter turnout in storm-ravaged states could allow Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win the popular vote even if Obama wins the state-by-state Electoral College race.Romney and Obama are virtually tied in pre-election polls.
STORMY WEATHER
Some 1.4 million homes and businesses were still without power or heat in near-freezing temperatures. More than 217,000 people had registered for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and about $199 million in has been provided.The exhausted region faced the prospect of a new storm - a strong "Nor'easter" forecast to bring frigid temperatures and more rain and wind by the middle of the week.With the ground in coastal New Jersey towns still saturated with ocean water, officials feared the Nor'easter could flood them again. In Belmar, Lake Como and Spring Lake, officials pumped out three lakes to allow groundwater to drain into them."By draining the lakes, we're lowering the water table in the neighborhoods around them," Mayor Matt Doherty of Belmar said on Monday. "We did this last year with Hurricane Irene and we found it made a difference."In New York City, most of the 15,070 schools reopened but 57 suffered structural damage, 19 lacked power and 16 were closed because they were being used as shelters, officials said.Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed a director of housing recovery operations to assist 30,000 to 40,000 people in need of shelter.With the region's transportation network still disrupted a week after the storm, commuters stood for an hour or more on train platforms or street corners in New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut on Monday waiting for trains and buses.The New York City subway ran at about 80 percent of its normal service.Motorists endured long lines at gas stations, many of which still lacked electricity or gasoline. [ID:nL1E8M56IZ] Fuel rationing was in force in New Jersey, where some residents hired school children to stand in line with gas cans.Wreckage from the storm was spread far and wide. On Long Island's southeastern shore, Southampton Town Trustee Bill Pell spent Monday motoring through the bays, retrieving 275-gallon home fuel tanks that had been uprooted by the storm."We started getting calls over the weekend about fuel tanks floating in the bay," said Pell, 52, a fourth-generation resident of eastern Long Island."While we were out retrieving fuel tanks in the bay, the bay constables were going after looters, who are now trying to access these area by sea to loot the houses."Crime had dropped 27 percent in New York City in the last week compared to the same period last year, the NYPD said, but burglaries were up 6 percent.(Reporting by Reuters bureaus through the U.S. Northeast; Writing by Michelle Nichols and Jim Loney; editing by Christopher Wilson)
It killed at least 113 in the United States and knocked out power to millions of people while swamping seaside towns and inundating New York City's streets and subway tunnels.While President Barack Obama was expected to win easily in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the states most affected by Sandy, the storm could expose fissures in the arcane Electoral College system that decides the presidency.One possibility is that low voter turnout in storm-ravaged states could allow Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win the popular vote even if Obama wins the state-by-state Electoral College race.Romney and Obama are virtually tied in pre-election polls.
STORMY WEATHER
Some 1.4 million homes and businesses were still without power or heat in near-freezing temperatures. More than 217,000 people had registered for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and about $199 million in has been provided.The exhausted region faced the prospect of a new storm - a strong "Nor'easter" forecast to bring frigid temperatures and more rain and wind by the middle of the week.With the ground in coastal New Jersey towns still saturated with ocean water, officials feared the Nor'easter could flood them again. In Belmar, Lake Como and Spring Lake, officials pumped out three lakes to allow groundwater to drain into them."By draining the lakes, we're lowering the water table in the neighborhoods around them," Mayor Matt Doherty of Belmar said on Monday. "We did this last year with Hurricane Irene and we found it made a difference."In New York City, most of the 15,070 schools reopened but 57 suffered structural damage, 19 lacked power and 16 were closed because they were being used as shelters, officials said.Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed a director of housing recovery operations to assist 30,000 to 40,000 people in need of shelter.With the region's transportation network still disrupted a week after the storm, commuters stood for an hour or more on train platforms or street corners in New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut on Monday waiting for trains and buses.The New York City subway ran at about 80 percent of its normal service.Motorists endured long lines at gas stations, many of which still lacked electricity or gasoline. [ID:nL1E8M56IZ] Fuel rationing was in force in New Jersey, where some residents hired school children to stand in line with gas cans.Wreckage from the storm was spread far and wide. On Long Island's southeastern shore, Southampton Town Trustee Bill Pell spent Monday motoring through the bays, retrieving 275-gallon home fuel tanks that had been uprooted by the storm."We started getting calls over the weekend about fuel tanks floating in the bay," said Pell, 52, a fourth-generation resident of eastern Long Island."While we were out retrieving fuel tanks in the bay, the bay constables were going after looters, who are now trying to access these area by sea to loot the houses."Crime had dropped 27 percent in New York City in the last week compared to the same period last year, the NYPD said, but burglaries were up 6 percent.(Reporting by Reuters bureaus through the U.S. Northeast; Writing by Michelle Nichols and Jim Loney; editing by Christopher Wilson)
Pepco sees restoration costs of up to $65 million due to Sandy
Reuters – 9:35AM NOV 6,12
(Reuters) - Washington, D.C.-based power company Pepco Holdings Group Inc,
whose service territories were severely affected by superstorm Sandy,
estimated additional costs of between $45 million and $65 million to
restore its systems.The actual costs may vary from this estimate, Pepco said in a statement announcing its quarterly results.The company said it would try to recover the
incremental system restoration costs when distribution rates come up for
revision.Pepco said last Wednesday that it had fully restored
power to all customers, who had lost electricity during the storm. The
company had to restore power to more than 130,000 customers after the
storm struck Washington last week.Pepco serves about two million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey.Pepco reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit
on higher electric transmission and distribution revenue and lower
expenses.
Net income rose 40 percent to $112 million, or 49 cents per share, in the third quarter, from $80 million, or 35 cents per share, a year earlier.Adjusted profit was 47 cents per share.Operating revenue fell 10 percent to $1.48 billion.Analysts on average had expected 42 cents per share on revenue of $1.72 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.Pepco narrowed its earnings guidance range for 2012 to $1.15 to $1.25 per share from $1.15 to $1.30. (Reporting by Swetha Gopinath in Bangalore)
NEW YORK -- From trying to figure out
where people would live to how they would be able to vote and when all
the lights will finally come on, government officials are still facing
multiple fronts in the efforts to recover from Superstorm Sandy. All
that, and there's another storm coming.Where to house potentially tens of thousands of people left homeless
by the storm is the most pressing crisis, as cold weather sets in.
"It's not going to be a simple task. It's going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. history," said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis management consulting firm founded by former Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt.
FEMA said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance and has put 34,000 people in New York and New Jersey up in hotels and motels. But local, state and federal officials have yet to lay out a specific, comprehensive plan for finding them long-term places to live. And given the scarcity and high cost of housing there and the lack of open space, it could prove a monumental undertaking.
Sandy killed more then 100 people in 10 states but vented the worst of its
fury on New Jersey and New York. A week after the storm slammed the
mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, more than 1 million homes and businesses
remained without power.Another storm – a nor'easter packing heavy rain and gusts of 50 to 60
mph – was headed for the area Wednesday, threatening more flooding and
power outages that could undo some of the repairs made in the past few
days.With the temperatures dropping into the 30s overnight, people in
dark, unheated homes were urged to go to overnight shelters or daytime
warming centers.Because so many people have been displaced by the storm, New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order allowing people to vote in
Tuesday's statewide and presidential elections at any polling place in
the state. New Jersey had already taken similar measures."Just because you are displaced doesn't mean you are
disenfranchised," Cuomo said. "Compared to what we have had to deal with
in the past week, this will be a walk in the park when it comes to
voting."As
for long-term housing for the homeless, Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano said Monday that the government is looking into using
everything from hotels and motels to FEMA trailers and prefab homes."Given the extent of need, no option is off the table," she said. "All of them will have some place in this puzzle."Officials have yet to even establish the magnitude of the problem.
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that officials are going door-to-door in hard-hit areas to assess the need for shelter. He said the worst-case estimate is 40,000 people, half of them in public housing.But he said as many as 20,000 will probably get their heat and power back within a few days. Ultimately, the number of people who need longer-term housing could be under 10,000, he said.
In New Jersey, state officials said they are still trying to figure out how many people will need long-term housing. At least 4,000 residents were in New Jersey shelters.___Contributing to this report were Michael Hill, Larry Neumeister, Cara Anna and Christina Rexrode in New York, Alicia Caldwell in Washington and Frank Eltman in Long Beach, N.Y.
Net income rose 40 percent to $112 million, or 49 cents per share, in the third quarter, from $80 million, or 35 cents per share, a year earlier.Adjusted profit was 47 cents per share.Operating revenue fell 10 percent to $1.48 billion.Analysts on average had expected 42 cents per share on revenue of $1.72 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.Pepco narrowed its earnings guidance range for 2012 to $1.15 to $1.25 per share from $1.15 to $1.30. (Reporting by Swetha Gopinath in Bangalore)
Hurricane Sandy: Nor'easter Looms Over New York As Region Recovers From Storm
By MEGHAN BARR and JENNIFER PELTZ
11/06/12 09:32 AM ET EST
"It's not going to be a simple task. It's going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. history," said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis management consulting firm founded by former Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt.
FEMA said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance and has put 34,000 people in New York and New Jersey up in hotels and motels. But local, state and federal officials have yet to lay out a specific, comprehensive plan for finding them long-term places to live. And given the scarcity and high cost of housing there and the lack of open space, it could prove a monumental undertaking.
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that officials are going door-to-door in hard-hit areas to assess the need for shelter. He said the worst-case estimate is 40,000 people, half of them in public housing.But he said as many as 20,000 will probably get their heat and power back within a few days. Ultimately, the number of people who need longer-term housing could be under 10,000, he said.
In New Jersey, state officials said they are still trying to figure out how many people will need long-term housing. At least 4,000 residents were in New Jersey shelters.___Contributing to this report were Michael Hill, Larry Neumeister, Cara Anna and Christina Rexrode in New York, Alicia Caldwell in Washington and Frank Eltman in Long Beach, N.Y.
