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Workers assemble the finish line for the New York City Marathon in New York's Central Park, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The 43rd New York City Marathon is on Sunday, with many logistical questions to be answered. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Workers assemble the finish line for the New York City Marathon in New York's Central Park, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The New York City Marathon is on Sunday, with many logistical questions to be answered. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NYC Marathon will still run

Last updated Friday, November 2, 2012 - 12:54pm

NEW YORK -- This year’s New York City Marathon is adding a twist to the months of training, injuries and setbacks runners overcome just to reach the starting line.

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A police officer directs traffic as a line of motorists stretches down Frenchtown Road Thursday morning, Nov. 1, 2012 as customers wait to enter a gas station in Milford Borough, N.J. At 10 a.m. the line exceeded 50 cars and caused congestion at the intersection of Milford-Mt. Pleasant Road. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Stephen Flood)

Long lines have motorists fuming at NYC gas stations

Eileen AJ Connelly, Meghan Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 2, 2012 - 9:44am

NEW YORK — Motorists fumed in long lines at gas stations around the metropolitan area and screamed at each other Friday morning as fuel shortages hindered the region’s efforts to recover four days after Superstorm Sandy.

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Glenda Moore, and her husband, Damian Moore, react as they approach the scene where at least one of their childrens' bodies were discovered in Staten Island, New York, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Brandon Moore, 2, and Connor Moore, 4, were swiped into swirling waters as their mother tried to escape her SUV on Monday amid rushing waters that caused the vehicle to stall during Superstorm Sandy. Police said the mother, Glenda Moore, was going to her sister's home in Brooklyn when she tried to flee the vehicle with the boys, only to have the force of the rising water and the relentless cadence of pounding waves rip the boy's small arms from her. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Sandy swept away children in isolated NYC borough

Eileen AJ Connelly, Meghan Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 2, 2012 - 10:05am

NEW YORK — The mother grabbed her two boys and fled their home as it filled with water, hoping to outrun Superstorm Sandy.

But Glenda Moore and her SUV were no match for the epic storm. Moore’s Ford Explorer stalled in the rising tide, and the rushing waters snatched 2-year-old Brandon and 4-year-old Connor from her arms as they tried to escape.

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As trucks carrying portable generators drive past, electric crews work on power lines Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in Hightstown N.J. Crews from as far away as Missouri and Illinois work to restore power to the region after Monday's storm surge from superstore Sandy left businesses and residents without power. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Rocky Mountain Power sending workers to NJ to help with storm recovery

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 2, 2012 - 10:08am

SALT LAKE CITY — Rocky Mountain Power is sending 18 employees to New Jersey to help residents there recover from superstorm Sandy.

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Death toll keeps rising from Sandy

Carol Morello The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 4:39pm

NEW YORK - As New York City police and firefighters continue their life-saving missions in storm-ravaged neighborhoods, they keep finding more bodies of victims from the superstorm that has devastated parts of the East Coast, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday.

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This aerial photo shows destruction in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Battered NJ confronts how to rebuild its shore

Geoff Mulvihill, Maryclaire Dale The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 10:50am

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. — In its tear of destruction, the megastorm Sandy left parts of New Jersey’s beloved shore in tatters, sweeping away beaches, homes, boardwalks and amusement parks.

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Commuters navigate the Long Island Rail Road Jamaica Station Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in the New York City borough of Queens. New York City moved closer to resuming its frenetic pace by getting back its vital subways Thursday, three days after a superstorm, but neighboring New Jersey was stunned by miles of coastal devastation and the news of thousands of people in one city still stranded by increasingly fetid flood waters.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NYC subway creaks back to life

Adam Geller, Meghan Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 9:35am

NEW YORK — New York tried to resume its normal frenetic pace Thursday, getting back much of its vital subway system after a crippling storm, but was slowed by gridlocked traffic.

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This combination of photos shows above, lower Manhattan dark after the hybrid storm Sandy on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, and below a fully lit skyline on Jan. 6, 2012, both seen from the Brooklyn borough of New York. In an attempt to lessen damage from saltwater to the subway system and the electrical network beneath the city's financial district, New York City's main utility cut power to about 6,500 customers in lower Manhattan. But a far wider swath of the city was hit with blackouts caused by flooding and transformer explosions. (AP Photo)

Blackouts linger in Northeast

Jonathan Fahey, Scott Mayerowitz The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 5:15pm

NEW YORK — Millions of families tried to adjust to life without modern conveniences Wednesday, two full days after Superstorm Sandy ripped through the Northeast and blacked out some of the nation’s most densely populated cities and suburbs.

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A customer browses food piled into shopping carts on Brighton Beach Avenue, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

Big Apple improvises to reopen for business

Candice Choi, Mae Anderson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 5:08pm

NEW YORK — Two days after Superstorm Sandy brought business in New York City to a standstill, stores that lost power are again serving customers, albeit by flashlight. Companies with closed offices are setting up shop in coffeehouses. And the owner of the Skylight Diner is borrowing bacon from his neighbors because the restaurant’s cupboard is bare.

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Homes destroyed by a fire at Breezy Point are shown, in the New York City borough of Queens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Sandy, fires leave many Queens residents homeless

Bradley Keoun Bloomberg News

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 2:16pm

NEW YORK - Matt Long poked around the sooty ground in front of the charred remains of his home of 15 years.

Nothing inside survived the post-Hurricane Sandy fire that ravaged the beachfront hamlet of Breezy Point, N.Y. Long and his wife, Mary, were trying to salvage the only keepsakes they could: octagonal stones, each six inches across. One bore the handprint of 10-year-old Grace, the other was made by 8- year-old Emily.

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This photo provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shows the South Ferry subway station after it was flooded by seawater during superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/ Metropolitan Transportation Authority)

Big job ahead restoring NYC subway

Alan Levin Bloomberg News

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 9:41am

NEW YORK - If you laid the New York City subway system in a line, it would stretch from New York to Detroit.

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A resident walks through flood waters in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

Airports, stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated

Adam Geller The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 1:01pm

NEW YORK — Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to feed and rescue flood victims two days after Superstorm Sandy struck.

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Sandy unearths historic skeleton

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 8:17am

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — New Haven police say superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton beneath the town green that may have been there since Colonial times.

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This Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an aerial view of the roller coaster from the Seaside Heights amusement park on the New Jersey shore submerged in surf, taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard. By late Tuesday, the winds and flooding inflicted by the fast-weakening superstorm Sandy had subsided, leaving at least 55 people dead along the Atlantic Coast and splintering beachfront homes and boardwalks from the mid-Atlantic states to southern New England. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)

Steps made to resume daily life in coastal region hit by Sandy

Adam Geller The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 10:07am

NEW YORK — People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

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(MARK LENNIHAN/The Associated Press) Robert Connolly (left) embraces his wife, Laura, as they survey the remains of the home owned by her parents that burned to the ground in the Breezy Point section of New York on Tuesday.

Sandy leaves devastation in its wake

Contributed, Staff Standard-Examiner, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 10:14am

PITTSBURGH — The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country’s most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on 21st-century lives, cutting off modern communication and leaving millions without power Tuesday as thousands who fled their water-menaced homes wondered when — if — life would return to normal.

A weakening Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 50 people, many hit by falling trees, and still wasn’t finished. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western New York to dump more of its water and likely cause more havoc Tuesday night. Behind it: a dazed, inundated New York City, a waterlogged Atlantic Coast and a moonscape of disarray and debris — from unmoored shore-town boardwalks to submerged mass-transit systems to delicate presidential politics.

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