The staggering damage from the storm

From yesterday’s New York Times, “Fractured Recovery Divides the Region”:

The authorities estimated that as many as 100,000 homes and businesses on Long Island had been destroyed or badly damaged in the storm. Sand dunes were flattened and rows of beach houses crushed. The storm’s furious flood tide created new inlets that could become permanent parts of the topography.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 05, 2012 08:55 AM | Send
    

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