Thursday, November 1, 2012

4.6 million on east coast still without power today

Though the hardest hit are probably Jew Jersey and New York here are a list of all the states with power losses from Hurricane Sandy where people still don't have power:
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut 
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
West Virginia
North Carolina
Ohio
Michigan
Massachusetts
Delaware

The weathermen say one of the dangers is temperatures in the mid to low 30s at night with homes ripped open by ocean or wind without heat or electricity or food or water with new storms on their way soon. Under these conditions people sometimes just don't make it unless they have camping skills. And not everyone has these types of skills on the east coast. And for people over 40 or 50 this might just be a ticket to bronchitis or pneumonia or worse under these conditions. This is especially true of people who might be in shock (mental or physical or both) who might not be making good decisions because everything they know as home is gone.

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