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Cuomo greets findings of Hurricane Sandy commission

2013-01-12 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A commission formed to examine ways to guard against storms like Hurricane Sandy, which caused extensive damage on the east coast of the United States in October, has called for flood walls in subways, water pumps at airports and sea barriers along the coast. The commission's findings were officially released Friday by the office of governor Andrew Cuomo of New York State, who formed the commission. The report recommends short- and long-term protections in transportation and with building codes....

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Exclusive: Readying for Sandy, New Jersey Transit erred in modeling storm

2013-01-12 02:27:00| Railroads - Topix.net

New Jersey Transit incorrectly used federal government software that otherwise could have warned officials against a disastrous decision to leave $100 million worth of equipment in a low-lying rail yard before Superstorm Sandy struck, a Reuters examination has found.

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MTA Estimates Sandy Took $5 Billion Swipe At Budget

2013-01-11 23:22:08| Railroads - Topix.net

Officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told a State Assembly committee this morning that the agency suffered about $5 billion worth of losses attributed to Hurricane Sandy.

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A Nuclear Post-Mortem for Sandy

2013-01-11 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The operators of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant, the reactor that declared an "alert" during Hurricane Sandy, made several small errors, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Friday. But an inspection team has concluded that "performance was acceptable and that emergency action level declarations were timely." The operators kept control room logs in a way that safety inspectors found hard to decipher later, and at one point, they took a wind level reading off the wrong sensor on their meteorological...

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