Shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday, The Village of Lawrence announced via its cal-alert system that it had declared a snow emergency beginning at 3 p.n. Sunday in light of the oncoming blizzard. "Please …
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12/26/10
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A strong band of thunderstorms made its way through Nassau County on Thursday as dangerous lightning, torrential downpours and winds in excess of more than 70mph were reported.
The …
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Mike Caputo, Anthony Rifilato and Mary Malloy
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9/16/10
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Following a 40-year hiatus, Frippery, a popular boutique with a style of its own, has returned to Long Beach. Long-time residents will remember Soni Harris' shop as a "go-to" place for teens and women of all ages.
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Teri-Ann Loeser
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6/29/10
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Q. A lot of trees came down around my neighborhood in the last big storm. Is there anything I can do to keep my trees safe, and is it allowed to put in wire tie-downs to keep my trees tethered during a storm?
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Monte Leeper
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5/14/10
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Little more than a month after a storm that ranked among the largest in Long Island’s history, some local legislators gathered at Adelphi University on April 15 to ask, Are we prepared for the next big storm?
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Matthew Hampton
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4/21/10
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Last Saturday's nor'easter, which featured heavy rainfall and tropical-storm-force winds, devastated parts of the Five Towns, toppling hundreds of trees and leaving thousands of residents without power. Many described it as one of the worst natural disaster to ever strike the area.
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Andrew Coen
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3/18/10
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Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Power Authority, described last Saturday’s nor’easter as “one of the biggest weather events in Long Island history.”
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Anthony Bottan
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3/17/10
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Five Towns Superstorm gallery
[Photo gallery]
Photos by Andrew Vardakis for the Nassau Herald.
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3/15/10
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Saturday’s Nor’easter that featured Tropical Storm force winds wreaked havoc on the Five Towns area with thousands of power outages reported by the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and train service suspended on the Far Rockaway branch.
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Andrew Coen
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3/14/10
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I don’t know how they do it, but the prognosticators at the Farmers’ Almanac were right again this winter. Back in August, they predicted a winter of “numbing cold” and “record-breaking” snow.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/10/10
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