Floods
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The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zuccotti" While the post-hurricane environment throughout the N.Y./N.J. area once again debunked the myth of “disaster = chaos,” it also created a window of opportunity for the 99% to re-imagine some aspec ...
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Storm Threatens Sandy-Devastated Northeast With Chilling Rain | Brian K. Sullivan
A damaged boat sits outside a destroyed mobile home in the Paradise Park trailer park in Highlands, New Jersey, on Nov. 3, 2012. Photograph: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A nor ...
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Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ...
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Occupy Wall Street Leading Massive, Volunteer-Powered Recovery Efforts in New York | The Troubadour
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Nov. 2, 2012 (Daily Kos) -- They are thousands-strong and growing: entering devastated neighborhoods yet to see outside help from established aid organizations. They are staff ...
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New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman
The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it come ...
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Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan
Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it w ...
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Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi
Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid ...
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PILLOW TALK: Moving Earth | Deborah Goodwin
Exacavator Sept. 26, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- There have been giant Tonka Trucks and prehistoric-looking excavators driving up and down Stony Brook Road for many days now, it's almost as noisy as mid-t ...
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Pillow for Flood Relief (Deborah Goodwin)
Oct. 14, 2011 -- STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. (ShapeShiftas) -- ShapeShiftas is pleased to announce the availablility of a very special, limited-edition Eye of the Hurricane Irene pillow. This handcrafted piece ...
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I 'Heart' VT (Deborah Goodwin)
Sept. 19, 2011 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- The 10th anniversary of 9/11 has come & gone, marked this year with admirable restraint from the fear-mongering politicians who turned the attacks into their just ...
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Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)
Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangl ...
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