100 days after Hurricane #Sandy , the Jersey Shore slowly recovers

Shuttered and silent, the Jersey Shore in winter is supposed to be bleak, but today, paused between storm and summer, 100 days after Hurricane Sandy and 110 days until Memorial Day, the shore remains a mournful place — struggling not to be.

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/YdIu7w
Photo: Andrew Mills / The Star-Ledger

Center NYC Affairs (@CenterNYC) #NYCHA Chair Rhea on #Sandy: Vulnerability of physical structures was much higher than anticipated. 2x #NYCHA bldgs affected than thought.

Weary Sandy survivors hunker down for storm: Like a repeat ‘nightmare’

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.”

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/14YDHgw
Photo: John Makely / NBC News

#NBCNewsStorm   #HurricaneSandy   #Sandy  

Have you seen the @NYPHotoFestival entries for the #sandy exhibition? We are doing the printing! Great imagery! 

http://nyph.at/sandy/index.php?nav=entries

#FEMA allows private companies to administer flood insurance programs, and Senator Charles Schumer wants them to do it more rapidly. Little more than half of #Sandy flood claims have been taken care of: http://ow.ly/hDNwg

House votes to expand borrowing authority for #Sandy  flood claims

Responding to the insurance claims of property owners hit by last October’s super-storm Sandy, the House voted Friday to approve $9.7 billion in additional borrowing authority for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) which covers property owners in flood-prone areas.

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/UotXVt
Photo: Seth Wenig / AP

#Lockton report reveals what catastrophe models didn't show about #Superstorm #Sandy http://prn.to/TLZh4E thanks for sharing @PRNewswire

http://www.jesuitvolunteers.org/file/cms/2013/2/1/2013_Winter_JVC%20Magazine_final1.pdf

One of our Brownsville Partnership team members, Bryan Woll, wrote this great piece for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Magazine about his post-Sandy experience working with public housing residents. Check it out! 

#sandy   #sandyrelief   #Brownsville   #Brooklyn   #nyc  

Airport runway becomes parking lot for Sandy-damaged vehicles

Tens of thousands of vehicles damaged by super storm #Sandy  are being temporarily stored on runways and taxiways at Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, N.Y..

See more: http://nbcnews.to/UQt39P
Photo: Stan Honda / AFP - Getty Images

#Occupy and #Sandy Storm Recovery Resources -- http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-and-sandy-storm-recovery-resources/

Occupy Wall Street & 350.org have teamed up with recovers.org – a people-powered disaster relief platform – to help coordinate response to Hurricane Sandy in NYC. At Recovers.org we are launching support pages where people can GIVE help or post a NEED. For ongoing updates and info about this evolving relief effort, and to find out how you can help, be sure to sign up and stay informed at the Occupy Sandy Hub!

http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/

Occupy Sandy Relief NYC FB -- https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc

#Sandy  re-assessed to be a category 3 hurricane at peak status per NHC assessment: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL182012_Sandy.pdf

So apparently Bill Nye is quite the Science Guy, but failed his meteorology classes... #Sandy   #blizzard2013   

Hours before one of the largest storms on record makes landfall in southern New Jersey on Monday evening, Hurricane #Sandy was speeding up and lashing the East Coast, pushing floodwaters in low-lying areas from Maryland to New York, bringing transportation systems to a halt and snapping electrical connections. For more photos: http://lat.ms/PbgamO.

Hurricane #Sandy final report from the NHC.  Was NOT a hurricane/tropical storm at landfall.  Also the peak intensity was increased to a category 3 hurricane.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL182012_Sandy.pdf

A stunning new image from space shows superstorm #Sandy, now a post-tropical cyclone, still churning over the eastern United States on Tuesday. NOAA's GOES-13 weather satellite captured the photo of the storm moving inland at 6:02 a.m. EDT.

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/Rr8FYO 

See the latest on Sandy in our live blog: http://nbcnews.to/Rr8qNs

Please Still Keep #Sandy Peeps in Your Thoughts this #HolidaySeason !:) 

Watch This #Cool #WNBC #News #Video on the #Inspiring "Yellow Team" of #StatenIsland founded by Farid Kader!:)  They have Done So Much for the Homeowners who fell into Sandy's Path...Go Team Yellow!!!:) 

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Bonds-Forged-on-Staten-Island-During-Sandy-Recovery/180632521 … 

Please Watch and Feel Free to Give Farid a "Shout Out" over on Twitter:)

Click here to Follow Farid on #Twitter :

https://twitter.com/FaridKader

#Thanks So Much and #Rock On!!!:) 

#NYC #NY #Christmas  

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