Sandy-torn northeast deals with more wind, water
By COLLEEN LONG and FRANK ELTMANBy COLLEEN LONG and FRANK ELTMAN, Associated Press?
?Sanitation workers shovel snow from Queens Blvd. during a snow storm Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in New York. Coastal residents of New York and New Jersey faced new warnings to evacuate their homes and airlines canceled hundreds of flights as a new storm arrived Wednesday, only a week after Superstorm Sandy left dozens dead and millions without power. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Sanitation workers shovel snow from Queens Blvd. during a snow storm Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in New York. Coastal residents of New York and New Jersey faced new warnings to evacuate their homes and airlines canceled hundreds of flights as a new storm arrived Wednesday, only a week after Superstorm Sandy left dozens dead and millions without power. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Jack Biondo ties a tarp down to protect donated supplies from a coming storm in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy are waiting with dread Wednesday for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm heads toward them and threatens to inundate their homes again or simply leave them shivering in the dark for even longer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Waves crash into a seawall and buildings along the coast in Hull, Mass., Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. A high-wind warning is in effect in the state until Wednesday night, with gusts of up to 60 mph expected in some costal areas, and 50 mph gusts expected for Boston and western Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Joe Graham delivers some gas in the snow to a neighbor for use in her generator in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, N.Y. Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. A nor'easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday, threatening to swamp homes all over again, plunge neighborhoods back into darkness and inflict more misery on tens of thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
An New York Police Department van drives along a debris covered, rain soaked street in a Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, as a Nor'easter aggravates already bad conditions in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
NEW YORK (AP) ? A nor'easter has brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding.
Yet, some in the storm-ravaged Northeast just shrugged, dug in and stayed put.
Under ordinary circumstances, a storm of this sort wouldn't be a big deal. But large swaths of the landscape are still an open wound, with the electrical system highly fragile and many of Sandy's victims still mucking out their homes and cars and shivering in the deepening cold.
Public works crews in New Jersey built up dunes to protect the battered coast, and new evacuations were ordered in a number of communities already emptied by Sandy.
In New York City, police went to low-lying neighborhoods with loudspeakers, urging residents to leave. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't issue mandatory evacuations, and many people stayed.
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