Target reported disappointing sales for November, thanks to super-storm Sandy and the havoc it wrecked.
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Back in November, I volunteered to help out in the Rockaways, which was devastated by super storm Sandy.
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In all, storm Sandy has claimed more than 130 lives, after killing nearly 70 people when it hit the Caribbean.
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As Americans assess the aftermath of storm Sandy, regulators warn that the situation for communication networks could get worse before it gets better.
In the wake of Storm Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has endorsed President Obama, saying he is best placed to tackle climate change.
Michael Terrasi and Laura Gatti live in one of the communities near South Beach which was most exposed to the worst of storm Sandy.
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Staff were meant to be able to sell their vested shares on Monday, but US markets were closed for two days due to storm Sandy.
Having said that, there were additional factors, such as government spending pullbacks and deal delays caused by storm Sandy, which ultimately had a real and tangible impact.
This particular report was likely skewed by the super storm Sandy that hit the U.S. east coast a few weeks ago and therefore be somewhat less market-sensitive.
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The destructive flooding caused by the storm Sandy, which struck the U.S. East Coast in late October, revived anxieties about rising ocean levels in heavily populated coastal regions.
Comparable store sales for the quarter rose only 0.7% due to the negative impact of Storm Sandy in November given the concentration of Saks stores in New York.
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We can choose to believe that super-storm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence.
The October-to-December period was also negatively affected by Storm Sandy, which caused the closure of many factories and businesses in the New York area, and by a sharp drop in exports.
The full impact from the huge storm Sandy, which was downgraded from a hurricane late on Monday, is yet to be known, and the full financial cost may be difficult to calculate.
Emergency officials in New Jersey said they were monitoring a coastal storm, expected to bring lashing rain, wind, snow and possibly coastal flooding to the region hit by super-storm Sandy in October.
Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is scheduled to travel to Connecticut and New York to meet with state and local officials and view ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane and Storm Sandy.
Analysts expect many of the 30, 000 new construction jobs - the sector's best performance in 15 months - to reflect rebuilding in the north-east of the US following the damage inflicted by Storm Sandy in October.
Other factors also exaggerated the income increases in the two months, including lump-sum benefit payments handed out in December, and the loss of income for many in the New York area during October because of disruption from Storm Sandy.
He nodded towards the pain inflicted by storm Sandy and then moved on to the stump speech that anyone who has attended more than one rally knows so well - the five-point plan, the anecdote about the US flag rescued from the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the dully-delivered homilies about the need for change.
Because Breezy Point hadn't been hit by a storm of Sandy's magnitude for decades, piping-plover habitat there had shrunk.
"A lot (of questions) are coming from people wanting to know how to better prepare for a storm like Sandy, " she explains.
President Barack Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York state after "super-storm" Sandy triggered devastating floods and cuts power to millions on the US east coast.
We also covered several off-grid devices that we'd like to have in the event of another storm of Sandy's magnitude -- Nokero's compact SunRay Pro solar charger, Berkey's super-versatile and effective water filter and Eton's hand-crank cellphone charger.
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In a twist, Hurricane (or super storm) Sandy actually helped drive up Hollywood box office numbers this weekend in the Northeast, where kids were off school on Friday and people over the weekend were seeking entertainment refuge from a very bad week of flooding, power loss and devastation.
The storm destroyed sandy stretches of land along the Jersey shore and gave many on Staten Island their own Katrina moment, with over 100 people confirmed dead (over 1, 000 people died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and roughly one million people still without power in the regions of southern Manhattan, the Island and parts of New Jersey.
No, not Sandy storm cleanup, rather who is going to cleanup after the marathoners?
The storm damage from Sandy is also affecting preparations for voting in Tuesday's elections.
And let me tell you, in a storm like Hurricane Sandy, or in any kind of crisis, I want to be with people of action.
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The worst losses were caused by a storm surge on Sandy's northern side, which extended along several hundred miles of coastline from New Jersey to Massachusetts.
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Many of the same residents had to flee their buildings in a hurry on the night of the storm, when Sandy's high winds nearly snapped the previous boom from its cab.
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