With many still stranded hours after the snow stopped, Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged other communities to send plows to help dig out in eastern Long Island, which took the state's hardest hit by far in the massive Northeast storm.
The storm was moving northeast, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
While airline stocks are trading lower today ahead of the major winter storm approaching the Northeast, higher fares could translate into higher earnings for the sector.
Passage was nearly delayed again Monday by a winter storm in the Northeast, leaving aides worried that not enough senators would be able to travel to Washington in time for the vote.
This would be the worst storm to hit the Northeast region since, well, maybe ever.
Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
Dubbed Frankenstorm, forecasters warn that Hurricane Sandy could be the worst storm to hit the Northeast in 100 years.
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Several professional and college sports teams were forced to rearrange their travel plans as a massive storm swept through the Northeast, dumping a few feet of snow in some areas.
This sixth trading week of 2013 comes to a close with gas prices pushed to a 2013 high as Winter Storm Nemo finds the Northeast, threatening the region with record snowfall and power outages.
I. (AP) New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.
As it strengthened, Irene also became larger, with tropical storm force winds extending 185 miles northeast of its center.
In the Northeast, insurers started seeking higher rates after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and continue to seek increases of up to 10 percent.
Overall, however, the industry "has done a fantastic job in adjusting the claims in the aftermath of this unprecedented storm, " said Gary Henning, the northeast region vice president of the American Insurance Association.
New York is already being blanketed by a winter storm expected to wreak havoc on travel in the Northeast.
Northeast lawmakers said the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst to strike the Northeast.
"Identity Thief" opened solidly despite the winter storm that buried much of the U.S. Northeast.
As Hurricane Sandy prepared to strike the Northeast, climate scientists from alarmist and skeptical camps alike reported the storm had little if anything to do with global warming.
Lawmakers say the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst ever to strike the Northeast.
Just a short two months ago a winter storm ripped through Boston, New York City and much of the Northeast.
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Locally, however, the natural disaster caused a drop in sales in the Northeast as power outages delayed transactions and some lenders demanded new inspections post-storm.
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Two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration storm-rating measurements initially ranked Friday's snowstorm as 16th in Northeast history by one scale and 25th by another.
On the older and more nationally oriented Northeast Snow Impact Scale, which looks at snow in the entire history of a storm, the weekend storm's total score was 4.35, ranking it 25th.
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman predicted a slight chance of severe weather in the Northeast on Sunday, mainly from the Washington, D.
The problem is, as sea level rises, storm surges become more dangerous and more frequent, and sea levels along the northeast Atlantic coast are rising faster than most anyplace on earth.
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In a twist, Hurricane (or super storm) Sandy actually helped drive up Hollywood box office numbers this weekend in the Northeast, where kids were off school on Friday and people over the weekend were seeking entertainment refuge from a very bad week of flooding, power loss and devastation.
The storm even prompted the cancellation of ACT tests, for would-be college students, around the Northeast.
After Sandy hit the Northeast last fall, New Jersey, then New York, had to begin even-odd rationing because the storm interrupted gasoline shipments for days.
The storm flooded the two train tunnels that currently exist under the Hudson River, disrupting train travel throughout the Northeast.
Lawmakers from the Northeast praised the legislation, calling it much-needed help for a region struggling to recover from the devastating October storm.
In the Northeast, utilities reported power outages affecting about 74, 000 in Connecticut and feared more outages elsewhere as the potent storm races out over the Atlantic.
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