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NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg has told police to use their loudspeakers to call for evacuations of coastal areas. Kathy Willens/AP

New York, New Jersey set for second storm evacuation

Après chois, le déluge.

RESIDENTS IN THE US states of New York and New Jersey are set to evacuate coastal areas for the second time in as many weeks, as a second major storm threatens to batter the north-east of the United States.

The warning comes as a second storm – unrelated to Superstorm Sandy, and significantly weaker than it – prepares to strike the coast.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered police to use their loudspeakers on their patrol cars to broadcast evacuation messages, as the storm makes it close to landfall later tonight.

“Even though it’s not anywhere near as strong as Sandy — nor strong enough, in normal times, for us to evacuate anybody — out of precaution and because of the changing physical circumstances, we are going to go to some small areas and ask those people to go to higher ground,” Bloomberg said last night.

“Everyone has major anxiety after what we just experienced a week ago,” said resident Anthony Ferrante, whose house is less than a thousand feet from the Staten Island shoreline. “I think everybody’s freaked out about what happened.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency put a number to the storm’s homeless in New York and New Jersey, saying 95,000 people were eligible for emergency housing assistance.

In New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, more than 277,000 people have registered for general assistance, the agency said.

Winds in New Jersey have already begun to pick up, and some communities along the shore have ordered mandatory evacuations for later in the day.

Atlantic County, in the southern part of New Jersey, activated its emergency operations centre and told residents to renew their stocks of emergency supplies.

Officials were waiting for the first high tide at about 1pm (6pm Irish time) to see if flooding would occur and also hoping the winds would not lead to more power outages.

“We have almost everyone who possibly can be reconnected back on. The idea we could now be facing power outages again does not come at a good time,” county spokeswoman Linda Gilmore said.

Major airlines have already begun scrapping flights in and out of the New York area ahead of the storm.

Additional reporting by AP

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    Nov 7th 2012, 5:27 PM

    God Love them it must be terrible to have to leave and just hope you will have a home when you get back to it.

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    Nov 7th 2012, 5:28 PM

    America are really getting a battering hopefully there won’t be any loss of life this time round.

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    Nov 7th 2012, 6:44 PM

    NY is becoming more and more like Cork every day

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    Nov 7th 2012, 9:22 PM

    my sister and brother in law just lost their long island house and now this. he can’t work because he has no access to fuel for his trucks, tough times ahead for them all. we really don’t understand how lucky we are sometimes.

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    Nov 7th 2012, 7:13 PM

    According to Republicans, the gays caused these storms. Therefore, it’ll be hard to persuade Reps to ‘believe’ in global warming, which, by the way, was kind enough to give us the wet, grey ‘summer’ we just had.

    Who needs scientists, studies and facts, when we have the bible and genesis.

    I’m sure Obama and Christie will be all over this new storm.

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    Nov 8th 2012, 12:12 AM

    @gavanreilly what is the meaning of “Après chois, le déluge”? I’ve never heard of that expression…

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