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Date: November 03, 2012 at 07:12:08
From: dreemz, [DNS_Address]
Subject: As cold snap looms, Sandy sets NY up for fuel crisis |
URL: http://news.yahoo.com/cold-snap-looms-sandy-sets-ny-fuel-crisis-041513851.html |
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As cold snap looms, Sandy sets NY up for a new fuel crisis.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Northeast residents lucky enough to have a roof after Hurricane Sandy struck now face a new problem: a heating oil shortage and widespread power outages mean some homes may go cold as the weather turns wintry.
A cold snap in the New York City area - with daily low temperatures set to drop into the upper 30s Fahrenheit (2-4 degrees Celsius) early next week - is raising concerns that residents of the storm-stricken areas of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut could be left without heat as they recover from one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
Some New York area heating oil distributors have already been forced to ration supplies. The fuel is used in nearly 5.8 million homes in the Northeast, the world's largest heating oil market. In some storm hit areas, distribution has nearly collapsed.
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Date: November 03, 2012 at 09:23:22
From: burnedmyrrh, [DNS_Address]
Subject: As cold snap looms, Sandy sets NY up for fuel crisis |
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Dreemz,
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS ARTICLE!
I was going to post it. I just saw it! I had warned the friend I'm staying with this weekend, I had warned her to get home oil by the end of October - SHE DIDN'T LISTEN! She's lucky that she has wood and her house is still warm and she had a generator.
But she and a few others this morning had told me that they had almost no rain on this part of L.I. and when Sandy passed by even the winds were hot around 3am or so, very strong but hot and they had a lot of earth or sand in them. I assume the sand/earth came from the South Shore cs we've all seen what they're doing right?
It's FREAKING FREEZING COLD but SUNNY today here, so all of this helps a bit, THANK GOD!
The police had closed the gas station that is a block away during the week cs they had too many fights of drivers cutting the line etc. and they just opened it this morning and the line goes way up this main road here but just one long freaking line that I can't see the end of it!
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