Tuesday, October 30, 2012
At a 9 a.m. press conference Tuesday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said the worst of Hurricane Sandy is over, but there are 1.3 million without power and two deaths.
“You could say we dodged a bullet,” said Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett at a 9 a.m. press conference. “We don’t have a shore line, so New Jersey and New York got it worse.” However, as of this morning, there are 1.3 million homes without power around Southeastern Pennsylvania after Hurricane Sandy hit land last night. "If you're one of those without power," Corbett said, "you probably don't feel like you dodged a bullet." State officials urge patience. All utility companies have brought in crews from other states to get the grid up and running. And there are nearly 700 active emergency shelters in operation now. Corbett also said two people were killed in Pennsylvania Monday — an 8-year-old boy in Susquehanna County and a 62-year-old …
As Hurricane Sandy prepares to hit Palmer and Forks, I ponder storms past.
Hurricane David. It was probably the first hurricane I remember. As Hurricane Sandy hits the Lehigh Valley, I decided to write about hurricanes past. The first I really remember was Hurricane David. Probably around 1979-1980. I had just started middle school in Morris County, N.J., and the storm hit us at night. Back then, you never got these major bulletins about a storm's arrival and there was no Internet. I was sleeping when I heard this crash and looked at a live fiery wire that was bursting outside my bedroom window. Well, I bolted from the room. The storm had hit some big trees in front of our Rockaway Township house, taking down the power lines and both cars parked in the driveway. We had no school. But we also had no power and no …
Monday, October 29, 2012
See a tree down? Notice a road is flooded? Post info and photos here to help your neighbors as we brave the storm together. We go live at 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
See a tree down? Notice a road is flooded? Post info and photos here to help your neighbors as we brave the storm together. We go live at 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Forecasters and state officials say Hurricane Sandy could be unprecedented — and Patch sites across the Lehigh Valley want to provide you with up-to-the-minute information. Please add information to this blog — you can add photos, news about power outages, flooding, road closures or what's happening in your front yard. To add your comments, just start typing in the text box above. You can upload photos, too, to show the world what this unprecedented storm looks like as it passes through our neighborhoods. If you are using Twitter to share information, use the hashtags #LVsandy and #sandypa and the tweets will appear automatically in the live stream here. You also can use the comments section of this article, as well. Whatever you do, stay …
Federal officials say the slow moving storm will cause problems over large part of the east coast through the middle of the week.
Federal officials warn residents to prepare for heavy winds, flooding and power outages from Hurricane Sandy. The storm, which is expected to come ashore somewhere along the east coast late Sunday into early Monday, is anticipated to affect 50-60 million people along the east coast, from the Carolinas to New England and extending west into Pennsylvania, West Virgina and the Ohio Valley. Flooding, for now, is the main focus of forecasters and federal disaster response agencies, according to Louis Uccellini, director the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center For Environmental Prediction. "Given the amount of rainfall and the period of time that it's falling over, we expect the river flooding to be significant from about 48…
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11:40 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
I'm in forks not far from the weis. No power since 5pm Monday. If anyone has any info about when power is estimated to come back, please share. Ppl will not update website with status of forks customers. Thanks!! more ›