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...hardy tradition of laughing in the face of adversity, many Northeastern residents allowed as how it was unusual, almost fun, to go without electricity for a day or two after Hurricane Gloria. But eight or nine? At the end of last week, large numbers of those same citizens still could not use their refrigerators, electric pumps or televisions. While power had been restored to more than 2 million customers, some 100,000 in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts remained in the dark, and the novelty of making do had worn...
After that first, limited deadline change, officers rolled nomination and voting deadlines back for all races, citing disruptions caused by Hurricane Gloria...
Hurricane warnings are, no doubt about it, a lifesaving blessing. As alarms are meant to do, they usually nudge people into a state of alert caution. Naturally, they are often a bit scary. But the first early words on infamous Hurricane Gloria last week proved far more than attention getting. They were downright intimidating. Bringing accounts of fiendish 150-m.p.h. winds--and coming three weeks after capricious Elena had given the Gulf Coast states an ugly bashing--the National Hurricane Center warnings made plain that Gloria might whirl and dance up the heavily populated East Coast like some catastrophic dervish...
...early Friday, when Gloria was lurching toward its landfall in the Carolinas, New York City was braced for what many meteorologists feared might be the worst storm of the century. The Eastern seaboard had evacuated its islands and lowlands, taped its windows, stocked up on batteries, candles and canned soup, brought in the porch furniture, stuck the garbage cans away and more or less ducked out of sight. By Friday morning it seemed that the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. had simply gone out of business. In Manhattan, the bosses of the Wall Street stock exchanges and most banks decided...
...comparative lull. After G hour had come and gone, first on the barrier islands off North Carolina and last in upper New England, all of what the newspaper people call aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced to flee exposed homes for inland sanctuaries or public shelters in schools and armories. There were widespread power failures that left more...