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The
boardwalk town of Seaside Heights in New Jersey has declared martial
law in the wake of damage from Sandy.
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November, 2012
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Action News, the ABC affiliate based out of Philadelphia, reported
that the fact, while showing the damage to rides and attractions in
the area. Several other nearby towns are also under martial law, with
the devastation to property and lives not yet clear.
“We
know people are there, we’re keeping an eye on them, and they need
to stay on their property. If they come off their property to come
off the island, then they don’t get back on. It’ll be a while
before anybody gets back on the island until we make it safe,” Toms
River Police Chief Mike Mastronardy told the station.
Police
are conducting door-to-door sweeps to check for dead bodies and
evacuate survivors.
Several
video feeds show the damage to the pier and its attractions, as well
as to the homes, many of which were reduced to splinters or heavily
damaged by flooding.
Meanwhile,
local communities in the flooded Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania
have made emergency declarations and is “pondering martial law.”
For the time being, curfews have been enforced in towns including
Wilkes-Barre and West Pittston in the area.
City
council in Wilkes-Barre authorized Mayor Tom Leighton to “take any
necessary action,” which includes martial law, according to
CitizensVoice.com. Prison Planet
State
troopers are being deployed in greater numbers at gas stations along
the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, where stocks of
gasoline are beginning to run low, causing frayed nerves and high
angst on the third full day of massive power outages that industry
analysts don't expect will be fixed too soon. --Natural News
Frustration
with dwindling supplies of gasoline and other necessities of life is
beginning to boil over in the tri-state region of New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, the states hardest hit by Superstorm
Sandy-caused power outages. --Fox News
Officials
say better than half of all gas stations in the New York City area
and New Jersey are not operating - either because they don't have
fuel or because they don't have the electricity to operate their
pumps.
--Natural News
The
U.S. death toll from the storm is currently 107, including 41 in New
York City. More than 2.2 million customers in several states remained
without power days after Sandy came ashore.
--CBS News
About
875,000 still don't have electricity in the New York metropolitan
area, including about 460,000 on Long Island.
--CBS News
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