RESPONDING TO SANDY: ROLLING OUT EQUIPMENT FOR STORM WORK

摘要

Superstorm Sandy has slipped from everyday headlines, but for those in the tree care industry in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the event remained in the news in late November and early December, even as the Pacific Northwest was being pummeled by 50- to 120-mph winds and up to 10 inches of rain. For many more months, cleanup crews will be dealing with the mess left by Sandy, which came ashore in the New York-New Jersey area October 29. The fact that the region rarely sees tropical-type storms, notto mention storms of this magnitude, is punctuated by the reality that 125 people were killed in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and more than $60 billion in damage had been recorded including damage to upward of 200,000 homes, according to Associated Press reports. The Associated Press reported in mid-November that utility companies in New Jersey had counted more than 113,000 downed trees, New York city more than 10,000 and many more thousands on Long Island.