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Hurricane Irene Recovery Efforts In Vermont And New Hampshire Get Award

AP | Posted 12.15.2011

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Continuing efforts to recover from Tropical Storm Irene in areas of Vermont and New Hampshire along the Connecticut River are getti...

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Greenmarkets And Restaurants Cope With Farmers' Rough Harvest

| Posted 01.07.2012

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By Mary Johnson MANHATTAN — Cheryl Rogowski, of Rogowski Farm, lost 80 acres of her 150-acre farm in Pine Island, N.Y., to Hurricane Irene. ...

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Flood Insurance Money 'Not A Magic Bullet' After Irene

AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 12.06.2011

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WATERBURY, Vt. -- The floodwaters of Tropical Storm Irene that ripped up roads and washed into living rooms across Vermont took a dramatic toll on qua...

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Irene Forced Classes Outside To Tents, Students Learn Under Blankets

AP | By LISA RATHKE | Posted 11.22.2011

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MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The floors are just bare concrete, but students are back in class at Moretown Elementary School after flooding from the remnants of...

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Hurricane Irene Victims Wait In Line, Denied Food Vouchers

Posted 11.22.2011

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Packed in to the county assistance office in Vineland, N.J., hundreds of people seeking post-Hurricane Irene food vouchers didn't receive a very warm ...

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Hurricane Irene Is a Chance to Put Things Right in New Jersey and Washington

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.06.2011

With parts of New Jersey and the rest of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast still literally underwater from Hurricane Irene, it is time to examine the dou...

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Obama Visits Flood-Ravaged New Jersey Towns, Promises Federal Assistance

Patch | Posted 11.04.2011

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After touring two northern New Jersey towns ravaged by Hurricane Irene, President Barack Obama assured residents Sunday that the federal government wi...

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Obama Visits New Jersey To See Hurricane Irene Damage

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 11.04.2011

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PATERSON, N.J. — President Barack Obama stood on a bridge overlooking the rain-swollen and fast-rushing Passaic River in Paterson, New Jersey's ...

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Weathering the Storm

Annette Powers | Posted 11.01.2011

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How could I throw such a pity party when people around me were forced to leave their homes and were in real danger? Why was I focusing on such banal matters instead of more important things like what non-perishables to pack in my "go-bag?"

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SLIDESHOW: Photos From Vermont Show Irene's Devastation

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2011

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The storm may be over, but the post-Irene cleanup has a long way to go. Vermont suffered some of Irene's worst blows. The storm caused the state's...

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GOP Response to the Flood

Jeff Danziger | Posted 10.31.2011

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Irene Delays Opening Of Schools Across East Coast

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 10.31.2011

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WHITMAN, Mass. — Parents may be ready to send their kids back to school, but some schools aren't ready to take them back. Power failures, flood...

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FEMA Chief Responds To Concerns About Dwindling Disaster Aid

AP | Posted 10.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The head of the federal disaster assistance agency says recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irene will proceed regardless of a dwi...

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AOL Energy Week in Review

Shifra Mincer | Posted 10.30.2011

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An unusual East Coast earthquake and an equally rare vicious north-moving hurricane bound up the U.S. East Coast Monday left many in the energy business wondering if they should begin preparing for a locust infestation.

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Health Risks For The Elderly And Sick In A Natural Disaster

The Huffington Post | Laura Schocker | Posted 10.30.2011

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For many up and down the East Coast who braced for Hurricane Irene this past weekend, the experience was a serious wake-up call for how prepared we ar...

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New Atlantic Storm Could Become Hurricane Katia

AP | Posted 10.29.2011

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MIAMI — A tropical depression far out in the Atlantic is forecast to become a hurricane this week, but it's too early to know if it'll strike th...

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Irene: Gratitude and Cautionary Warnings

Jill Lynne | Posted 10.29.2011

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I awakened this morning with a feeling of gratitude and a sense of bliss. In my dreams I was floating about in pools of calm turquoise waters fi...

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The Calm During the Storm: How the Media Actually Got It Right This Week

Raymond Schillinger | Posted 10.29.2011

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As the flood waters recede and the news cycles resumes its deafening roar, we stand to gain from one more lesson learned: while our human-made problems and conflicts seem indomitable, they are the only ones we truly have the power to resolve.

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Irene Tests New 'Dual-Status Commander' Training

AP | By DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 10.29.2011

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DENVER -- The military's efforts to help the East Coast recover from the floods and disruption caused by Hurricane Irene could test the Pentagon's new...

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WATCH: Bloomberg Talks Up A Spanish-Language Storm

editorial.huffingtonpost.com | Posted 10.28.2011

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Bloomberg has been talking up a Spanish-language storm this weekend. We sincerely appreciate the Mayor’s efforts to reach out to the Spanish-speaki...

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National Grid 'Working Very Hard' To Restore Power To Hundreds Of Thousands

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 10.28.2011

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National Grid, a utility company that supplies electricity to 3.4 million people in the northeastern United States, is currently working to restore po...

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WATCH: For Any Zone A Ladies Still Trying To Make Plans

Posted 10.28.2011

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The hurricane may have already rolled through New York City with little fanfare, but with transit down and some modest flooding in the Zone A areas, t...

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WATCH: The Only Hurricane Preparation Most Of Us Needed

Posted 10.28.2011

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As residents of the northeast and New England are waking up to a lot of nothing from Hurricane Irene, we can't help but look at our taped windows, can...

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3 Million Lose Power In Hurricane Irene

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 10.28.2011

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It could take weeks to restore power to millions of people left in the dark by Tropical Storm Irene. The lights went out for more than seven million ...

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Authorities Try To Gauge Damage In South

AP | ROBERT RAY and TOM FOREMAN Jr. | Posted 10.28.2011

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KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — Hurricane Irene fell short of the doomsday predictions of record-breaking storm surges in North Carolina and Virginia. ...

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