Roughly 300 stores closed at the height of the storm because of power outages or government evacuation orders, and about 80 remained shut as of Tuesday afternoon.
Businesses big and small across the impacted region braced for the bill amid fears of power outages, storm surges and lost productivity.
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Parts of Chelsea kept power all the way through the worst of the storm.
The company, which designs and manufactures generators, hiked its full-year sales forecast due to the major power outages in the wake of the storm.
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David McMann, in Charleston, West Virginia, has paid a price for the storm and lack of power at his home.
The storm knocked power out to thousands of homes in Texas and Oklahoma and was blamed for the death of a 21-year-old man whose SUV hit an icy patch on Interstate 70 in northwestern Kansas and overturned Monday.
More than three decades before the massive storm devastated the Atlantic coast, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions that would cause the towering storm surge, overwhelming flooding and widespread power outages caused by Sandy.
Shares of the generator manufacturer rocketed 21% higher, a reflection of the massive power outages caused by the recent storm and expectations that Sandy may drive more consumers and businesses to secure backup power sources.
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Then, as if they had reached for a sizzling clothesline in the middle of an electrical storm, one by one they began to jerk, convulsing in the grip of unseen power.
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The Audubon Zoo is open on weekends, although the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which lost most of its fish after the storm knocked out power, won't reopen until summer.
As it stands now, we are still supporting in North Carolina requests for assistance as they go to the recovery phase and begin damage assessments -- a lot of power outages, roads that were heavily damaged by storm surge, particularly in the Outer Banks, as well as a lot of debris in the eastern part of the state.
As the power companies were reconnecting the last of their customers, another ice storm arrived.
We are focusing on restoring power and lines of communication that have been knocked out during the storm.
Emergency services have been dealing with a number of fallen trees, and power cables brought down by the storm-force winds.
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At the height of the storm, about 100, 000 Kansas City Power and Light customers were without power, the company said.
In New York, Consolidated Edison has strung 60 miles of new electrical cable after the storm and eventually restored power to more than 1 million customers.
But he said residents of the mobile-home park also told him that one siren sounded weaker after the storm knocked out some of the city's power.
The storm also knocked out power to 56, 000 customers of the Knoxville Utilities Board in Knoxville, Tennessee, just north of the national park, the utility said in a statement.
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At the height of the storm, about 35, 000 households lost power on Long Island, and about 10, 000 households still had no electricity on Saturday morning, said Gil Quiniones of the New York Power Authority.
The main part of the jail, which houses 697 inmates, lost power in the storm, said Ward.
All but one of those sites lost grid power for longer than six hours during the storm.
People stayed inside for the fierce winds as the storm moved through, sweated during a few days of power outages, and have now begun to return to normal life.
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In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton declared a state of emergency after communities in the south-west of the state - already struggling to restore power from an earlier ice storm - were buried under heavy snow.
Late Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy said roughly 4.5 million Americans are without power due to storm damage.
Mayor Bloomberg criticised Lipa for making inadequate progress in restoring power, particularly in the Rockaways, a series of beachfront neighbourhoods hard hit by the storm.
As the City of New York struggled to deal with the effects of hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed schools for a third day and declined to offer a solid timetable for the resumption of power or rail service to the city, which was hard hit by the storm on Monday night.
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Millions of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents battered by the storm are still without power.
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