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Storm Causes Damage, Kills 3 Across Region
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 14, 2010
Modified Mar 14, 2010
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The Nor'easter that swept in yesterday left a lot of damages and three deaths in its wake. Two people were killed by a falling tree in Teaneck, NJ while a woman in Bay Shore, Long Island was also killed by a falling tree. Others experienced more downed trees, power outages, and flooding.
Winds hit 60 MPH, and 126,000 residents were left without power in NYC, 145,000 without power on Long Island, 66,000 without power in Connecticut, and 273,000 without power in NJ (some service has been restored). A few subway lines were suspended temporarily due to trees on tracks and track flooding while the Staten Island Ferry's service was suspended for six hours, because the winds made it difficult to dock the ferries. LIRR suspended some service and hundreds of NJ Transit passengers were stuck on a train for five hours. Also, there were (naturally) delays at the three area airports.
The city's 911 and 311 systems were overwhelmed: NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said, "On a busy Saturday night we may get as many as a thousand calls in an hour. This Saturday evening we received as many as 4,000 in an hour, most of them weather related." One woman whose grandparents' home had no heat or electricity and also had flooding told the Daily News, "We were calling for over an hour. We need the Fire Department more now than ever."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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