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The superstorm called Hurricane Sandy will surely go down as one of the U.S.’s most costly and crippling storms, ripping a $20 billion swath of destruction up the Eastern Seaboard, and Long Island’s South Shore was front and center amid the tumult as Sandy’s northern end lashed communities from Bellmore to Valley Stream and from Long Beach to Rockville Centre.
Now, after the flooding and the fires, the anxiety and fear, the South Shore must slowly rebuild, one home, one school, one business at a time.
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By Scott Brinton
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10/31/12
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In light of what the weather service called a "moderate" risk for severe thunderstorms that could contain heavy rain, damaging wind, lightning, hail and even a tornado, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano announced the postponement of the Outdoor Summer Movie Night at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre as well as the Summer Concert Under the Stars at Wantagh Park, both scheduled for tonight.
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By Judy Rattner
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7/26/12
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Exhibits and more...
Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent CollectionThis rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European …
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4/11/12
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Last March, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake rattled the Pacific Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that inundated coastal areas of Japan.
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2/23/12
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Around 10:05 on Feb. 16, wires of a crane lifting a steel beam off a flatbed truck at the World Trade Center site snapped, causing the beam to fall about 40 stories and crush the truck.
As of …
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Lee Landor
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2/16/12
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Italian physicist Enrico Fermi fired up the world’s first nuclear reactor on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court beneath Alonzo Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Fermi achieved what scientists call “criticality” –– a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction –– at 3:52 p.m. His graphite-pile reactor, dubbed Chicago Pile-One, ran for 28 minutes and produced enough energy to power a flashlight.
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10/20/11
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Millions of people throughout the region experienced the inconvenience of losing power and the feeling of sitting in the dark for hours and days during and after Tropical Storm Irene. We all assume now and forever that we just have to flip the light switch and on go the lights. Bad assumption.
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9/29/11
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I remember when the real estate agent first took my wife and me to what would become our home in south Merrick nine years ago. We pulled up across the street from the quaint split-level, with white shingles and an aging gray roof. We instantly fell in love.
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9/9/11
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Emergency responders and public officials deserve credit for getting way out in front of last month’s devastating hurricane.
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9/9/11
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The Long Island Power Authority’s chief operating officer, Michael Hervey, toured storm-ravaged parts of south Merrick with Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg on Wednesday to reassure frustrated homeowners that power would be restored to their homes.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/31/11
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