HUFFINGTON POST: Nearly a full week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, more than 1.3 million electricity customers from West Virgina to Connecticut are still without power as temperatures plunge below the freezing point at night…
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Saturday night that the two-week-long restoration times proposed by the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) for parts of the Rockaways are “unacceptable.” The city warned that temperatures had fallen so low that seniors and others were at risk of hypothermia, and urged those affected to seek city shelters or warming centers…
LIPA says on its website that it has 11,000 workers trying to restore the power and that 90 percent of its customers would be back online by Wednesday… (more)
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