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O ctober 31, 2012 a'l'e ^lortlanb (©bseruer Page 5 East Coast Storm Worst Seen Millions wait for electricity and access damages (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas waited wea rily for the power to come back on Tuesday, and New Yorkers found themselves all but cut off from the modem world as the death toll from Hurricane Sandy climbed to 40, many of the victims killed by falling trees. The extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurri cane-force winds of 80 mph, began coming into focus: homes knocked off their foundations, boardwalks wrecked and amusement pier rides cast into the sea. "We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can," Gov. Chris Christie said. "The devasta tion on the Jersey Shore is some of A construction crane that col lapsed in the high winds on Mon day still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown Manhattan, and hundreds of people were evacuated as a precaution. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore. Some bridges into New York re opened, but some tunnels were closed, as were schools. Broadway theaters and the metropolitan area's three main airports, LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark. With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven sub way tunnels under the East River, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation's larg est transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm. Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Au thority, said the damage was the worst in the 108-year history of the New York subway. Cars were scattered like leaves when floodwaters hit a Coney Island neighborhood in Brooklyn, N. Y. The damage followed a direct hit by Hurricane Sandy Monday night on the East Coast. to turn a political rally in Ohio into a were injured. About 20 babies from the neonatal storm relief event. New York University's Tisch intensive care unit were carried down Sandy will end up causing about Hospital evacuated 200 patients staircases and were given battery- $20 billion in property damage and after its backup generator failed, powered respirators. $ 10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, making it one of the cost liest natural disasters on record in » ■ 0S- ♦ «o i I lis t FATHER-SHIFT A C0NFERENCET0 CHANGE THE FATHERLESS LANDSCAPE IN OUR CITY SPEAKERS— DR. KEN C A N F IE LD Foundations and pilings are all that remain o f brick buildings and a boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., after they were destroyed when a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast on Monday night. the worst we've ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point." As the storm steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain, more than 8.2 million people across the East were without power. Air lines canceled more than 15,000 flights around the world, and it could be days before the mess is untangled and passengers can get where they're going. The storm also disrupted the presidential campaign with just a week to go before Election Day. President Barack Obama can celed a third straight day of cam paigning, scratching events sched uled for Wednesday in swing state Ohio. Republican Mitt Romney re sumed his campaign, but with plans the U.S., according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. Lower M anhattan, which in cludes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater, a record, coursing over its seawalls and highways. Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather since the Blizzard of 1888. The NYSE said it will reopen on Wednesday. A huge fire destroyed as many as 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens on Tues day, forcing firefighters to under take daring rescues. Three people 2012 DR. JO H N S O W E R S DR FR A N K D A M A 2 IO R O LA N D W A R R E N DR. M A R K S TR O N G G U I M IS H E L D E N N A R D R E S E R V E Y O U R S P O T TO DAY! K WWW.FATHERSHIR.ORG 5 0 3 .2 8 8 .0 4 7 9 W O M E N - T H U R S D A Y , N O V 15, 7 0 0 P M L IF E C H A N G E C H R IS T IA N C T R $10 M E N - FRIDAY, N O V 16, 7 0 0 P M <fc O C S A T U R D A Y N O V 17, 9 :0 0 A M C IT Y B IB L E C H U R C H FATHFR S H IF T W ill R A IS F A W A H I N l S S ( ) l I HI I A 1 H I H I 1 S S I I ’ lL lE M IC . Q U IP C O M M U N IT II S TO B R IN G H l A l IN G A N D C I I A N G I I A N D S C A P 1 IN O U R C IT Y . «f»5í<S is h K * . l fm TO t i l l I A I HERLESS M u ltn o m ah U n iv e r s it y •Ml BretHer* M l^ llttert TRUE TALK 8 0 0 AM season O SERVICE G l<»\ \|«I>U|R ti kh w f • *«««,» i h
