The World Meteorological Organization announced the retirement after deciding that the name was, well, "inappropriate."
Verizon reported a quarterly loss of $4.23 billion, or $1.48 per share, up from losses of $2.02 billion, or 71 cents per share a year earlier, in part because of losses and damages related to Hurricane Sandy.
While residents worry about what the Street View photos will do to property values, if Google's Staten Island project looks anything like what it did for New Orleans following Katrina, it will raise the kind of awareness the "forgotten borough" will need as it continues to rebuild.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
As many of us transition back to our sort-of normal post-hurricane lives, there is reflection upon what we learned, not just about natural disasters and helping others in a time of need, but also about hurricane weight gain and ... hurricane love.
It's been more than a week since Sandy hit the New York area, and with an intervening election and, now, snow on the ground, to some it may be a faded memory, enough so we can start talking about how hilarious and interesting it all was, the funny things it made us do, the compromises we had to make, and how much weight we gained from the whole event. Right?
The nor'easter is still on the way. The good news, from Weather.com, "It won't be another Sandy." The bad news: "On Wednesday, it will add misery to Sandy-battered areas with strong winds, heavy rain, rough surf, and very chilly temperatures."
The "forgotten borough" of Staten Island was hard hit by Sandy, sustaining extensive damages and accounting for nearly half the death toll in the area. It remains in need of a lot of help.
The state of the subway subway map looks a lot less depressing today, with the MTA opening lines over the weekend and this morning, but commuters still face long lines and crowds.
Sandy came, ravaged New York City, and then left us with the following question: How can we better prepare the city for future storms?
Yesterday I was reminded by a friend of how "nice" people in the city became following another disaster, albeit a very different one, with far more deaths—after 9/11, she said, people were just nice to each other for almost a year. How long would we be nice to each other after Sandy? Are we being nice to each other as we speak?
There is zero real evidence that anyone has dressed up as a Con Ed worker and gone door-to-door robbing people, yet the tales of such incidents are cropping up so frequently in media, on social networks, and old fashioned in person, that even Con Ed is warning people to ask its workers for ID.
It looks like the Con Ed spokesman got our hopes up and despite what he told Bloomberg, Con Ed's twitter account is giving a less optimistic estimate on the state of power in lower Manhattan.
A Frankenword is a special kind of portmanteau we don't talk about all that much, but given Sandy (dubbed early on a "Frankenstorm"), it is again a topic of conversation, at least among certain semantically driven people.
With cell service snarled and power still out in downtown Manhattan, a lot of people are turning to an ancient friend: The pay phone.
This morning limited subway service and a bus bridge opened up to New York's commuters, in an attempt to fix some of yesterday's traffic woes. So, how's it working out? Better than yesterday, but not by much.
Think back to last Wednesday (yes, today is Wednesday), when we were first learning that this ridiculous-sounding monster-hybrid storm with the preposterously corny name of Sandy might hit us. There have been so many emotions since then!
David Rohde on Sandy and inequality, Yonah Freemark and Lawrence J. Vale on housing aid, David Weigel on glamorizing the flip-flop, Kathleen Parker on the race card, and Ted Galen Carpenter on the Mexican drug war.
A good deal of the false Sandy information circulating on social media originated with one user: Twitter's @comfortablysmug. Now that his identity has been made public, he's being pilloried on the Internet.
Having hit land last night with devastating results in New Jersey and New York City, Sandy will weaken as it continues up through Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and on into Canada.
As the New York City area (and beyond) attempts to recover from one of the most massive, damaging storms in our history, we get a story in the New York Post that changes everything. Or, nothing, in that it confirms what we had suspected about a certain set of people who will stop at nothing to get their Starbucks.
In purely semantical terms, Sandy is whipping up some havoc, though of a less dangerous kind than what she's doing atmospherically. Here's a lexical exploration of some of the key storm-related words flying around.
While it's one of our favorite ways to track the storm, the thing about following Sandy via photos on the Internet is that, like a lot of things online, there is a high chance of encountering a fake.
The superstitious might wonder if perhaps Sandy were some form of cosmic payback for all the snarking and making fun and lack of respect we showed with Irene, despite that prior storm's damage to many beyond Manhattan.
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