Housing, Voting, Power: Problems Abound Post-Sandy

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 Catastrophe Property

From trying to figure out where people would live to how they would be able to vote and when all the lights will finally come on, government officials are still facing multiple fronts in the efforts to recover from Superstorm Sandy. All that, and there’s another storm coming. Where to house potentially tens of thousands of people left homeless by the storm is the most pressing crisis, as cold weather sets in. "It’s not going to be a simple task. It’s going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. history," said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis management consulting firm founded by former Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cold-weather-storm-add-victims-misery-17639572

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