Apart from the hurricane worries, the reason is that offshore reserve life is typically shorter.
Specialty stores, boutiques, malls and discount stores had few consumers during the hurricane week.
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His advice: "Go away for awhile and come back once the hurricane passes, " he explains.
It's part of a risk assessment study of the area done shortly after the hurricane.
About half the staff would be in to cover the hurricane, if it came.
Thanks to the hurricane, transportation stalled and fuel demand plunged, leaving large stocks in place.
Tenet, the big hospital chain, has shut down several of its hospitals in the hurricane zone.
"You're doing something to the ocean that the hurricane would have done anyway, " Emanuel said.
But two months after the hurricane, less than 15 percent of the city's restaurants have reopened.
Nothing had changed in either the hurricane forecast or conditions in Boston during those five hours.
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But, what about the impact of cleaning and reconstruction that is expected to follow the hurricane?
The hurricane center said western Cuba could receive as much as 25 inches of rain.
The hurricane center's five-day forecast places a landfall anywhere from Galveston, Texas, east to Mobile, Alabama.
This will study the northern part of the hurricane coming in from Lake Pontchartrain.
He recently came back from a trip to Haiti where he assessed the hurricane damage there.
Some Coney Island staples that have been shut since the hurricane have no choice.
However, unlike the hurricane, the fiscal cliff is not likely to smack us all at once.
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Contaminated food, water and milk could become the biggest health risk of the hurricane.
"I don't think we've had a losing week, except for the hurricane recently, " said Ms. Goodman.
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It could gain more strength over the next few days, the hurricane center said.
This is a bold attempt to discover a silver lining in the hurricane's clouds.
We don't bad talk about the hurricane because, like the hurricane, something bad happened.
The Realtors at this meeting include a man whose house burned down after the hurricane.
Both the Tessitores and the Heberts had been trapped by rising floodwaters during the hurricane.
It's the area worst affected by the hurricane and the floods that came with it.
The hurricane comes as US Vice-President Joe Biden is visiting Gulf coast officials and residents.
In the hurricane's aftermath the state took control of 107 of the city's 128 schools.
Some relived the hurricane over and over in their heads, while others cowered in thunderstorms.
Near the coast, the surge will likely cause destructive waves, according to the hurricane center.
The hurricane center attributed 72 U.S. deaths directly to Sandy, from Maryland to New Hampshire.
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