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Ambulances line up to evacuate patients from a New York hospital that lost power.

This is what I do

Medicine |  It’s 3 a.m. Thursday, two nights after Superstorm Sandy barreled into Manhattan, and I’m standing in the ornate elevator lobby of New York-Presbyterian…

DISASTER: Water floods the Plaza Shops in Manhattan.
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Unprecedented

Weather |  Superstorm Sandy leaves waves of destruction and weeks of cleanup

Loves like a hurricane

Loves like a hurricane

Faith & Inspiration |  In July I sat on a New Jersey beach with my best friend Kayla, singing about hurricanes. The ukulele had a broken string, so it was just us and the waves:

Philadelphia braces for Sandy on Monday

My 24 hours with Sandy

Weather |  Monday started with Barbara calling to see if I had put away the lawn chairs and if I thought this was the first seal on the scroll. I answered affirmatively…

A powerless lower Manhattan on Wednesday

Shelter in the time of storm

Compassion |  In the darkness of lower Manhattan, food dwindles but homeless shelters keep a light on

Midtown Manhattan in the dark on Tuesday morning

21st century hurricane, 17th century ballad

Faith & Inspiration |  Walter Russell Mead is a brilliant guy I’ve never interviewed but want to. Next best thing is reading his blog, Via Meadia—and I like his post yesterday…

Water reaches the street level of the flooded Battery Park Underpass in New York.

After Sandy

Weather |  New York wakes up from a devastating deluge, and the city’s churches marshal relief efforts

A vehicle damaged by Hurricane Sandy at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens

Storm surge

Weather |  As Hurricane Sandy slams the East Coast, causing death and major power outages, the presidential campaign pauses

Elaine Belviso, 72, is rescued from her flooded home by Suffolk County police after being trapped there overnight

Sandy leaves death, damp, and darkness in wake

Weather |  NEW YORK (AP)—Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without power, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car,

Waves wash over the seawall near high tide at Battery Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012

East Coast grinds to a halt as superstorm nears

Weather |  NEW YORK (AP)—Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial…

Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland

Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland

Weather |  NEW ORLEANS (AP)-Louisiana officials said Wednesday they may have to intentionally breach a levee in a flooded area as Hurricane Isaac made a slow, drenching…

Chain reaction

Chain reaction

Weather |  The effects of this summer's drought will have a ripple effect throughout the Midwest

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