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It's report card time for electric companies, for their performance during Hurricane Sandy
Watchdog with Paul MuschickThe state Public Utility Commission issued a report today to state lawmakers about how electric companies performed during Hurricane Sandy. Overall, the commission gave utilities high marks, but suggested areas for improvement. Utilities turned to... -
Preparing your home for storms
Jill Sorensen's basement flooded after a winter storm knocked out her power, then again in 2011 during Hurricane Irene.
What stopped another encore performance during last year's derecho? She'd installed a sump pump that uses her home's water pressure to...Tags: Hurricanes, Weather Reports, Timonium, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Letter: Eastern Shore senator questions state's plan for dealing with sediment behind Conowingo Dam
This letter was sent to the head of the Maryland Department of Environment and a similar one was sent to the head of the Department of Natural Resources. A copy was provided for publication. In August, the U.S. Geological Survey published a report...Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Tropical Storms, Tropical Weather, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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Trees draw scrutiny in battle to keep the lights on
No one seemed to know who owned the unhealthy trees in the alley behind Rexmere Road in Baltimore, the ones growing amid the electrical lines, but there was no mystery about the cause of every power outage around there.
Meetings were organized. Baltimore...Tags: Hurricanes, Botany, Mary Pat Clarke, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters
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The first grades are in on how power companies responded to Hurricane Sandy
Watchdog with Paul MuschickMany people were steamed at their electric company after sitting in the cold and dark for days following Hurricane Sandy. Many of them unfortunately had the same experience last year when Hurricane Irene blew through, and again when a freak...... -
Utilities did a good job during Superstorm Sandy, just ask them
Local electric company officials were patting themselves on the back last week at a hearing in Harrisburg to review how the utilities performed in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Unlike many of you, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission...
Tags: Hurricanes, Electricity Production and Distribution, Lehigh County, Allentown, Bucks County
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Hurricane Sandy brings two more deaths to the Lehigh Valley as more than 200,000 homes remain without power
The local impact of Hurricane Sandy became more catastrophic for the Lehigh Valley with the deaths of two more people, bringing the region's death toll to four as of Wednesday morning. A Lower Macungie Township woman died from the fumes from a portable...
Tags: Hurricanes, Coopersburg, Tropical Storms, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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BGE works to restore power to thousands of residents
Dale Lucas' horse farm in Baltimore County lost power during Hurricane Irene last year. It lost power for six days when the derecho blew through in June. And it lost power again Monday night. Losing electricity has become such a problem for the 22-...
Tags: Weather Warnings, Weather, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tropical Storms, Baltimore County
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Is Sandy a taste of things to come?
CNNWe should not be surprised. That's the view of many climate scientists as they survey the destruction wrought by the superstorm that ravaged the Northeast this week. The melting of Arctic ice, rising sea levels, the warming atmosphere and changes to...Tags: Republican Party, Columbia University, Andrew Cuomo, Arts, Elections
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Storm's cost may hit $50B; rebuilding to ease blow
WASHINGTON (AP) — Superstorm Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. In the long run, the devastation the storm...
Tags: Freddie Mac, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Hurricanes, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Economy, Business and Finance
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After Sandy, a stunned Northeast struggles to its feet
In New York and New Jersey, Sandy lived up to its advance billing as a once-in-a-lifetime megastorm, a deadly collision of tropical and arctic forces that hammered the coastline with mountainous waves and winds and swamped lower Manhattan with record...
Tags: Battery Park, West Islip, Hurricanes, East Stroudsburg University, Tropical Storms
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