The Express-Times for October 30, 2012

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BY NICK FALSONE

The Express-Times

The threat of HurricaneSandy paralyzed the Lehigh

Valley and northwest New Jer-sey on Monday as residentsand officials braced for pulver-izing conditions that were on-ly expected to intensifyovernight into today.

Power outages and the po-tential for flooding plaguedthe entire region. In Bethle-

hem, officials ordered apart-ments evacuated near theMonocacy Creek.

In Easton, fears of a city-wide power loss prompted themayor to set a 9 p.m. Mondaycurfew. Emergency sheltersopened in Belvidere, Phillips-

burg and elsewhere.The greater threat to the re-

gion appeared to be windrather than rain, forecasterssaid Monday afternoon.

The National Weather Ser-vice issued a high wind warn-ing for all of Lehigh andNorthampton counties. Advi-sories for windy conditions al-so were issued for Hunterdonand Warren counties.

This is an extremely dan-gerous situation, the weatherservice said in a statement.

Gusts were predicted toreach up to 75 mph overnight,the statement said.

Electric utilities anticipat-

ed that power outages wouldaffect hundreds of thousandsof customers and could last up

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ATLANTIC CITY | A furi-ous Hurricane Sandy be-gan the westward lurchthat forecasters feared andtook dead aim at New Jer-sey and Delaware on Mon-day, washing away part ofthe Atlantic City board-

walk, putting the presiden-tial campaign on hold andthreatening to cripple WallStreet and the New Yorksubway system with an epicsurge of seawater.

Gaining speed and pow-er through the day, thestorm knocked out electric-

ity to more than 1 millionpeople and figured to up-end life for tens of millionsmore. It clobbered theghost-town cities of theNortheast corridor, from

Washington, D.C., toBoston, with stinging rainand gusts of more than 60mph.

As it drew near, Sandymoved closer to converging

with two cold-weather sys-tems to form a hellish su-

perstorm of snow, rain andwind. Forecasters warnedof 20-foot waves bashinginto the Chicago lakefrontand up to 3 feet of snow in

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Madison Maher, left, runs into the rain Monday while her mother, Susan Sorenson, takes a picture of the rough surf at Sea Bright, N.J.

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BY JEFF SISTRUNKAND KATHRYN BRENZELThe Express-Times

With emergency declara-tions in place, and HurricaneSandy continuing to beardown on the region,

Northampton, Warren andHunterdon county authoritiesMonday staffed emergencyoperations centers as calls be-gan to come in for downedtrees and power lines.

To speed local disaster re-

sponse, Northampton Countyset up a one-stop shop at thecounty 911 center in UpperNazareth Township, said BobMateff, the county emergency

management coordinator.Representatives of thePennsylvania Department ofTransportation and PPL

BY PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN,TOMMY ROWANAND SARA K. SATULLOThe Express-Times

Pennsylvania and New Jer-sey authorities warned resi-dents to stay off the roads, but

with school and work closuresMonday, crowds flocked toLehigh Valley and northwestNew Jersey stores and shop-

ping centers for last-minutestorm-preparation purchases.

At Home Depot locations,shoppers were seeking what

was left of power generators,batteries and flashlights. Atthe Greenwich Township loca-tion, shoppers could be seencarrying sand and wooden

Sandys surge

$10 BILLION TO $20 BILLION IN DAMAGEexpected when all is said and done.

ONE-STOP SYSTEMS UP AND RUNNING, officialsin Northampton, Warren and Hunterdon say.

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Electric Utilities and FirstEn-ergys Metropolitan Edison

were expected to arrive at thecenter by Monday afternoon,

he said.Warren County opened its

emergency operations centerMonday morning at the 911

center on Route 57, as author-ities anticipated a high volumeof storm-related calls, saidFrank Wheatley, the countysdirector of public safety andemergency management coor-dinator. The center will beopen for the duration of thestorm, he said.

Hunterdon Countys Emer-gency Operations Center alsoopened Monday and will re-main operational as the stormcontinues to affect the area.

Northampton Countyscenter will be staffed aroundthe clock until further noticeand has a bank of generatorsthat can be activated in theevent of a power outage, said

Angel Gillette, spokeswomanfor the county division ofemergency management.

Well have people here24/7 from now until the situa-tion is resolved, Mateff said,noting that post-storm effortssuch as damage assessmentsare a large part of an emer-gency response and canstretch on for days after astorm passes.

Emergency officials will bein constant contact with thePennsylvania Emergency Man-agement Agency and officials inall 38 municipalities to assessthe need for aid, Mateff said.

Personnel will also keep intouch with organizers of the

American Red Cross of theGreater Lehigh Valleys emer-

gency shelter at 2121 City LineRoad in Bethlehem, he said.

Warren County also had abackup in place to keep com-munications flowing.

In case the communica-tions center loses power, ateam of about 15 ham-radiooperators part of the Radio

Amateur Civil EmergencyServices will be deployedthroughout the county to coor-dinate with authorities.

The amateur operatorswork in coordination with thecommunications center and

will be stationed at WarrenHaven and St. Lukes Hospi-tal, Phillipsburg, with battery-

powered radios, Wheatleysaid.

I always say they couldtake two sticks and a rubber

band and talk to China,Wheatley said. They are veryastute at what they do.

A group of licensed volun-teers, the Amateur RadioEmergency Services Team isalso available to work withmunicipal emergency coordi-nators in Warren County.

to a week in some parts be-cause of winds knocking downlines.

Tens of thousands in NewJersey and Pennsylvania hadalready lost power as of Mon-day afternoon. Locally, thenumber of power outages wasin the thousands as of Mondayevening.

Rivers should not floodHeavy rainfall was still a

major concern for emergency

coordinators. Creeks that havehistorically flooded duringmajor storms were expectedto swell beyond their banks.

The Lehigh and Delawarerivers, however, were not ex-

pected to flood. Forecasterspredicted the Lehigh River inBethlehem would crest early

Wednesday morning at 7.7feet, well below the 16 feetthats considered flood stage.Projections call for theDelaware River in Eastoncresting at 16.4 feet on

Wednesday afternoon.Flood stage is 22 feet.

These predictions were allsubject to change based on the

path of the storm.

Although the floodingthreat to the Delaware Riverbasin appears to be lessened,meteorologist Patrick OHaracautioned that could be de-

pendent on the reservoirs atthe rivers head waters in New

York.It maybe wont do so bad-

ly as some other areas,OHara, who works with the

weather service in MountHolly, N.J., said of the

Delawares upper basin. Itsstill a significant stormthroughout the state.

Eye toward Jersey ShoreOutside the region, the sit-

uation was gloomier. Hurri-cane Sandy strengthened lateMonday morning and made aturn toward the East Coast.Storm surges flooded largeswaths of the Jersey Shore andthreatened to do the same inNew York City.

Virtually all commercecame to a halt in Manhattan asofficials shut down the New

York Stock Exchange, publictransit and the two major tun-nels that connect New Jerseyand the island.

Local residents who ownproperty on the Jersey Shoresaid they were imploring ten-ants to leave the properties ifthey hadnt already.

Rachel Haddad, of Easton,owns several properties in At-lantic City and Brigantine, N.J.She said some of the tenantsare trying to ride out the stormdespite her pleas that theyleave.

Back in this region, emer-gency officials were hopefulmost residents would heed

warnings. NorthamptonCounty sent home all

nonessential employees at 2p.m. Monday.

Most schools were closedMonday and planned to stayshuttered today. Lehigh ValleyInternational Airport was vir-tually empty; all flights werecanceled. LANTA shut downalmost all of its transit servic-es.

Emergency crews put upbarricades to stop traffic fromtraveling on roads that wereexpected to flood. Pennsylva-nia lowered speed limits onInterstate 78 and other major

highways.A stretch of Seventh Street

in Allentown, and portions ofCollege View Drive in Hack-ettstown were among thoseclosed to traffic.

Contingency plansCounty officials on both

sides of the Delaware Riverspent much of Monday firm-ing up contingency plans in theevent the power outages affecttheir essential operations.

In case the Warren Countycommunication center loses

power, a team of about 15hand-radio operators Ra-dio Amateur Civil EmergencyServices will be deployedthroughout the county to coor-dinate with authorities. The

amateur operators work in co-ordination with the communi-cations center and will be sta-tioned at Warren Haven andSt. Lukes Hospital inPhillipsburg with battery-

powered radios, said FrankWheatley, Warren Countyspublic safety/emergency man-agement coordinator.

I always say they couldtake two sticks and a rubber

band and talk to China,Wheatley said. They are veryastute at what they do.

Angel Gillette, a spokes-woman for NorthamptonCountys office of emergency

management, said the coun-tys 911 center in UpperNazareth Township isequipped with a bank of gen-erators that will power opera-tions in the event of an outage.

Despite the anxiety aboutthe storm, some residents

were taking the storm instride. Ed Supon, of East AllenTownship, said hed alreadystocked up on the necessities,including gallons and gallonsof water, a small generator andfirewood.

On Monday afternoon, hewas among a steady stream ofcustomers who stopped atTanczos Beverage in HanoverTownship, Northampton

County.Now Im getting beer to

last me seven days, Suponsaid with a laugh Monday af-ternoon.

Reporters Andrew George, Sara K.Satullo, Kathryn Brenzel, PamelaSroka-Holzmann, Jeff Sistrunk,Regional Editor Kurt Bresswein,Assistant Managing Editor/Opera-tions Tony Rhodin and The Associ-ated Press contributed to thisreport.

boards into their cars.Sergio Moreira, owner of

Express Employment Profes-sionals in Palmer Township,

visited the Palmer Home De-pot to buy 20 sandbags for his

business and needed more todeflect water from the door-

way.Im trying to get more to-

day, he said.A Williams Township man

searched for charcoal so hecould grill once the power

went, and Bill Verbics, ofPalmer Township, was buyingsupplies to cover his basement

window wells to keep out wa-ter.

Fast-food eateries along25th Street saw a steady earlyafternoon stream of vehiclesmoving through the BurgerKing, McDonalds andDunkin Donuts drive-throughs. The parking lot was

full by noon at the Giant super-market in Palmer, with resi-dents stocking up on the usualmilk, eggs, bread and cannedgoods.

Milton Fedd, of Easton,filled his cart with a 12-pack of

water bottles, peanut butter,chips and what he describedas his favorite comfort food:a bag of pistachios.

The shelves are basicallybare, he reported after check-ing out. I was finding stuffthats not going to go bad,things you dont need to heatto cook with.

A line formed at the Red-box kiosk outside the super-market with people interestedin renting DVDs before the

power went out.Were looking for anything

new thats out right now, saidMiller Horan, of Wilson Bor-ough, who grabbed a movie

with her daughter, BriannaHoran, a senior at Wilson

Area High School.Patrick Sessions, of Bucks

County, who works for Poly-tek Development Corp. in

Williams Township, was recy-cling water jugs outside theGiant, noting he already had10 gallons and was stocking upanother five gallons. He alsofilled up the gas tank in his carand got gasoline for his powergenerator, he said.

At Frank & Dots Beer De-pot in Easton, a clerk by 1 p.m.said he sold the last three 20-

pound bags of ice. Sales of beerand cigarettes were steady.Easton resident Angelo Ortizstopped in for two packs of cig-arettes and a candy bar thelast purchases before thestorm, he said.

I hope we just get the rainhard but no flooding, he said.

Ready for SandyEd Supon on Monday after-

noon declared himself readyfor Sandy.

The East Allen Townshipresident had gallons and gal-lons of water in his home, asmall generator set up in thegarage he keeps the dooropen to keep carbon monoxidefrom accumulating andenough firewood to keep

warm for five days.Now Im getting beer to

last me seven days, Suponsaid with a laugh Monday af-ternoon at Tanczos Beveragein Hanover Township,Northampton County.

Supon was just one of asteady stream of customersstopping at Tanczos to stockup. Customers said that de-spite warnings to stay home,they werent concerned to bedriving and running errands

because rain was light andwinds had not yet picked up.

Manager Chris Matla saidthe store sold out of ice and

water over the weekend butshelves were restocked forMonday.

It was like July Fourthweekend here, Matla said. Itwas crazy.

Tanczos planned to stayopen until it didnt make senseanymore, he said. The store

typically closes at 9 p.m. Mon-days. As soon as the doorsopened Monday morning, cus-tomers were hauling cases of

beer up to registers.

This Monday morningwas like a typical Friday atrush hour, Matla said.

Sam Kalic, of Bethlehem,has a house full of guests fromEurope for her daughters

wedding this weekend in NewYork City.

Kalic said she was trying tostock up on food and drink andthen planned to head homeuntil Wednesday morninglikely.

Im certainly not going tobe on the road tonight or to-morrow, Kalic said.

Closed stores

Plenty of businesses closedMonday. The Lehigh ValleyMall made the call Sundaynight. Sears and Bon-Ton re-mained open for a brief periodat the Phillipsburg Mall,

which otherwise was closed.

The Pennsylvania LiquorControl Board closed all its

liquor stores statewide in an-ticipation of Hurricane Sandy.The board planned to contin-ue to monitor weather condi-tions to determine whetherthe stores will remain closedor reopen as scheduled today.

The Shoprite in GreenwichTownship was closed, but theRedbox kiosks outside thefront door still drew a crowd.

Victor Narra, clerk of Park-way Liquors & Deli, at Memo-rial Parkway (Route 22) andSouth Fourth Street in Lopat-cong Township, was openeven though he said business

was slow.

He didnt want to open, but

a contractor was scheduled toswing by and finish recon-struction of the stores outside

wall after a truck crashedthough it Oct. 10.

Narra said people are pan-icking because of the proximi-ty to the Delaware River, evenas forecasts indicated it wouldcrest well short of flood stage.

Its scary, he said. Theydont want to lose anything.

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Robert Robeski, chief Radio Amateur Civil EmergencyService officer, adjusts the volume level on a radioMonday afternoon in the Warren County 911command center in Franklin Township. The amateurradio operators staged at area hospitals and sheltersto augment the countys communications.

During the storm, New Jerseys largest daily newspaper, TheStar-Ledger, is offering free access to its digital replicaedition, which allows you to view the newspapers pages online.

To do so, go to ed.starledger.com/daypass. Use the passwordFREE, in all capitals. It will prompt you for the password aswell as your email and telephone number. Be sure to usenumerals only on the phone number no hyphens. Eachdays edition will be available by 5:30 a.m.

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As of Monday evening, thousands of people were without electricity in the Lehigh Valley andnorthwest New Jersey. Utilities were reporting the following numbers.

PPL: Lehigh County 495 outages, the majority of which were in the Slatington, Lower Milfordand Upper Saucon townships. Northampton County 162 outages, the majority of which were inPlainfield Township and Lower Saucon Township.

JCP&L: Warren County 2,826 apparent outages, the majority of which were in Knowlton,Blairstown, Liberty and Washington townships. Hunterdon County 10,187 apparent outages, themajority of which were in Frenchtown and the townships of Clinton, Tewksbury, Delaware and Raritan.

Met-Ed: Northampton County 1,832 apparent outages, most of which were in Moore andBushkill townships, and Nazareth.

Natural gas companies: UGI Gas says flooding caused by heavy rain could result in an interruption

of service. Anyone affected should call 800-276-2722. UGI customers who smell the rotten-egg odorantadded to gas should leave the building immediately and call 800-276-2722.

Elizabethtown Gas customers should call 800-492-4009. Both utilities say gas appliances underwater need to be inspected before they are restarted.

UTILITY OUTAGES

WHO TO CALL

^ PPL Electric: 800-DIAL-PPL (800-342-5775).

^ Metropolitan Edison andJersey Central Power &Light: 888-LIGHTSS(888-544-4877).

^ Northampton Countyresidents seeking informa-tion about emergency shel-

ters may call 610-759-2600.^ Aqua New JerseyPhillipsburg call center:908-859-4800.

^ Easton Suburban WaterAuthority: 610-258-7181.

^ The Hunterdon CountyOffice of EmergencyManagement asks that resi-dents contact their localmunicipal emergencymanagers. A list ofHunterdon County contactsis available on the countysFacebook pagefacebook.com/HunterdonCountyDOP.

^ The Warren CountyOffice of EmergencyManagement asks that resi-dents contact their localmunicipal emergencymanagers. A list of WarrenCounty contacts is availableon the countys websiteco.warren.nj.us/municipal.html.

If a municipal building isnot open, contact theWarren County EmergencyOperations Center at 908-835-2080 or the countyEmergency Managementoffice at 908-835-2051 or908-835-2047.

^ The American Red Crossof the Greater LehighValley opened an emer-gency shelter at 2121 CityLine Road, Bethlehem. The

Lehigh Valley CountyAnimal Response Team isopening a shelter at thesame location and can bereached at 610-390-0088.

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HURRICANE:Sandys surge

West Virginia.

Airlines canceled 10,000flights, disrupting the plans oftravelers all over the world,and storm damage was pro-

jected at $10 billion to $20 bil-lion, meaning it could prove to

be one of the costliest natural

disasters in U.S. history.President Barack Obama

and Republican challengerMitt Romney canceled theircampaign appearances at the

very height of the race, withjust over a week to go beforeElection Day. The president

pledged the governments helpand made a direct plea fromthe White House to those inthe storms path.

When they tell you to evac-uate, you need to evacuate, he

said. Dont delay, dont pause,dont question the instructionsthat are being given becausethis is a powerful storm.

Sandy, which killed 69 peo-ple in the Caribbean beforemaking its way up the Atlantic,

began to hook left at midday,moving at almost 30 mph faster than forecasters had ex-

pected.While the hurricanes 90

mph winds registered as onlya Category 1 on a scale of 5, it

packed astoundingly lowbarometric pressure, giving itterrific energy to push waterinland, said Kerry Emanuel, a

professor of meteorology atMIT.

We are looking at the high-est storm surges ever record-ed in the Northeast, said JeffMasters, meteorology directorfor Weather Underground, a

private forecasting service.The energy of the storm surgeis off the charts, basically.

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A4 Tuesday, October 30, 2012 BREAKING NEWS: lehighvalleylive.com HURRICANE SANDY

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NEW YORK | Stock tradingwill be closed in the U.S. for asecond day today as Hurri-cane Sandy bears down on theEast Coast. Bond trading willalso be closed.

The last time the New YorkStock Exchange was closedfor weather was in 1985 be-cause of Hurricane Gloria,and it will be the first timesince 1888 that the exchange

will have been closed for twoconsecutive days because of

weather. The cause then wasa blizzard that left drifts as

high as 40 feet in the streets ofNew York City.

The New York Stock Ex-

change and Nasdaq said theyintend to reopen Wednesdayand would keep investors up-dated.

Much of the East Coastwas at a standstill Monday asthe storm approached. Masstransit and schools wereclosed across the region aheadof the storm hitting land,

which was expected to hap-pen later Monday.

Areas around New YorksFinancial District were part ofa mandatory evacuation zone.The storm surge is already

pushing water over seawalls inthe southern tip of Manhattan.

CME Groups New Yorktrading floor was closed, but

electronic markets were func-tioning. Crude oil fell 80 centsto $85.48 in electronic trading.

CME hasnt made any an-nouncements about tradingon its markets for today. CMEowns exchanges that tradecommodities, futures, optionsand securities related to inter-est rates.

Bond trading will also beclosed today. The SecuritiesIndustry and Financial Mar-

kets Association called for anearly close to bond tradingMonday at noon. The yield onthe benchmark 10-year Trea-sury note was 1.72 percent,compared with 1.75 percentlate Friday.

NYC financial marketsshuttered for two days

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NEW YORK | Defiant NewYorkers jogged, pushe dstrollers and took snapshotsof churning New York Harbor

on Monday, trying to salvagenormal routines in a city withno trains, schools and an ap-

proaching mammoth storm.

The worst is still coming,warned Gov. Andrew Cuomoas officials shut tunnels,Broadway, mass transit andthe stock exchange, sayingHurricane Sandys stormsurge could inundate down-town with up to 11 feet of wa-ter. Hundreds of thousands ofNew Yorkers living on the

waterfront or low-lying areaswere ordered to leave.

On New Yorks Long Is-land, floodwaters had begunto deluge some low-lyingtowns and more than 100,000customers had lost power.

And high winds picked upduring the day in the city, ap-

parently tipping over a con-struction crane at a 65-storycondominium under con-struction in midtown Man-

hattan. Waters swelled overesplanades at the southerntip of Manhattan and parts ofa highway that snakes alongManhattans East Side wasflooded. About 16,000 New

Yorkers lost power, mostly inthe boroughs of Queens andStaten Island.

Despite the dire forecasts,

many chose to embrace whatwas coming.

Doorman Ozzie Pomalesshowed up at work at his low-er Manhattan high-rise with

binoculars around his neck.I really wanted to see some

big waves, he said.Mark Vial pushed a

stroller holding his 2-year-old daughter, Maziyar, to-

ward his apartment bui ldingin Battery Park City, an areathat was ordered evacuated.

Were high up enough, soIm not worried about flood-ing, said Via, 35. Theres

plenty of food. Well be OK.

Nearby, Keith Reillyclimbed up on a rail next tothe rising waters of New YorkHarbor so his friend EliRowe could snap a photo of

him in an Irish soccer jerseywith the Statue of Liberty inthe background.

This is not so bad rightnow, said the 25-year-oldReilly. Well see later.

The worst of the storm, acombination of Sandy, a win-try system from the West andcold air streaming from the

Arctic, was expected to hitthe city under a full moonabout 8 p.m. Surging waters

of between 6 and 11 feet couldflood subway tunnels, knock-ing out the underground net-

work of power, phone andhigh-speed Internet lines thatare the lifeblood of Americasfinancial capital.

It marked the second timein 14 months that New York

City has faced a scenarioforecasters have long feared:a big hurricane hitting the cityor a bit south, with counter-clockwise winds driving wa-ter into miles of densely pop-ulated shoreline.

Mayor MichaelBloomberg urged more of the375,000 people in the citysevacuation zone to get outearlier Monday, saying the

weather would soon get toobad to leave. He closedschools for a second day to-day. The U.N. and the 9/11memorial were also closed.

Leave immediately. ...The window for you gettingout safely is closing, he said.

Joshua Segal, who lives ina 10-story Battery Park City

build ing, stayed, chattingwith neighbors outside hisbuilding Monday afternoon.He said at least half of hisneighbors decided not toleave, even though the super-intendent turned off the ele-

vator.

He said he can understandwhy people with health con-cerns might want to evacuate

but if youre in good healthand youre just going to stayand read a book by candle-light Im OK.

Many New Yorkersembrace coming chaosTHOUSANDS urgedto evacuatelow-lying areas.

BY ANDREW GEORGEThe Express-Times

With Hurricane Sandysimpact expected to be brutal

when it reaches the New Jer-sey coast sometime Mondaynight, Easton resident RachelHaddad wanted to defer ques-tions about how concerned she

was until the storms first surgewas actually felt.

Dont ask me today, ask metomorrow, Haddad, who hasmultiple properties in AtlanticCity and Brigantine, N.J., saidMonday afternoon.

Like other Lehigh Valleyresidents who own homes andcondos along the shores ofNew Jersey and Delaware,Haddad said she checked on

her properties this past week-end and advised her tenants toleave. Most decided against

her advice, she said.Im screaming at them and

no ones leaving, Haddadsaid.

Haddad said that havingowned properties along the

Jersey Shore for roughly 30years, she knows that whenemergency officials call for anevacuation, its not a sugges-tion.

The emergency officers

know whats going to happen,she said. Whatever they say,

people should heed theirwarning.

But even if the multiple ad-visories and warnings dontconvince people to flee thearea, Haddad said, a glance at

Atlantic Citys bottom lineshould be enough of an indica-tor that its time to head for

higher ground.When they close casinos,

you know its serious stuff, shesaid.

Monday afternoon, with

the hurricane still hours fromcoming ashore, the ocean hadbroken through the dunes on aportion of Long Beach Island,where evacuations were underway due to Hurricane Sandy.

A dune breach in BeachHaven flooded the streets, andflooding is reported elsewhereon the island as well.

Police and rescuers weregoing house to house in somecommunities, offering to re-move people from their

homes.Palmer Township resident

Michael Cavanaugh owns ahome about a mile inland fromBethany Beach, Del., and said

his top concern is the high-

speed winds that Sandy is fore-cast to bring.

As of 11 oclock Mondaymorning, the National Hurri-cane Center upped Sandys po-tential maximum wind speedto 90 mph.

Cavanaugh said he remainshopeful that his home willweather Sandy like it did dur-ing Irene in 2011, and he is stay-

ing in touch with his neighborsthroughout the storm. Hes

planning on going to Delawareon Thursday to assess the af-termath.

We survived the last oneOK and Im hoping this one

works out OK, too, said Ca-vanaugh.

Frank Lombardo, presi-dent of WeatherWorks in

Hackettstown, said that fornow, Lehigh Valley residents

with properties on the coastneed to stay put and listen toofficials.

The biggest part of thisdamage will be the JerseyShore, he said. Fortunately,theyre in the Lehigh Valleyright now and not down theshore.

Lombardo said that Sandyhas the potential to damageproperties along the coast thathave seemed to weather otherhurricanes in the past.

There are properties thatwill flood down the shore thathave never flooded before.

Reporter Andrew George can bereached at 610-258-7171 or [email protected].

Worries overshore homesin hurricaneLEHIGH VALLEY RESIDENTS hoping for the bestas Sandy threatens to damage beach properties.

AP PHOTO

A truck backs up hastily Monday as rough surf from the Atlantic Ocean breaks over the beach and acrossBeach Avenue in Cape May, N.J., as high tide and Hurricane Sandy begin to arrive.

Airlines cancelthousands of flightsNEW YORK (AP) | HurricaneSandy grounded thousandsof flights in the Northeast on

Monday and upended travelplans across the globe,stranding passengers fromHong Kong to Europe. Themassive storm threatens tobring a near halt to air travelfor at least two days in a keyregion for both domestic andinternational flights.

Major carriers such as Amer-ican Airlines, United andDelta canceled all flights intoand out of three area air-ports in New York, the na-tions busiest airspace. Allflights were canceled atLehigh Valley InternationalAirport as well.

According to the flight-track-ing service FlightAware,nearly 10,000 flights had

been canceled for Mondayand today, almost all relatedto the storm.

About one-quarter of all U.S.flights travel in or out of NewYork airports each day. Socancellations here can dra-matically impact travel inother cities.

Nuke plants saytheyre preparedExelon Generation said it hascompleted extra precautionsto make sure its three nu-clear power stations in Penn-sylvania are prepared forHurricane Sandy.

Operators at Peach BottomAtomic Power Station, Lim-erick Generating Station andThree Mile Island completedpre-storm inspections lastweekend, and emergency op-erations centers at the sta-

tions are fully staffed, thecompany said in a news re-lease Monday.

Elsewhere along the EastCoast, additional inspectorsare being sent to nuclear

power plants.The Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission says its headquar-ters and Northeast regionaloffice are both closed, ex-cept for emergency person-nel.

The agency says safeguardsat all nuclear plants canwithstand hurricane-forcewinds and flooding. Still,plants will be shuttered ifhurricane-force winds areexpected in the area.

From staff and wire reports

Snowplows outin AppalachiaCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) |

Snowplows were out in partsof the southern Appalachianmountains Monday, prepar-ing for as much as 3 feet ofsnow in higher elevationsspawned by the merger of awinter storm with HurricaneSandy.

The early snowfall could be aboon for the areas ski re-sorts, which have sometimesstruggled to keep theirslopes open with a warmingclimate.

Forecasters in West Virginiaexpanded a blizzard warningto at least 14 counties forhigh winds and heavy, wetsnow. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblindeclared a state of emer-

gency.

Were not taking it lightly,Marlinton Volunteer Fire De-partment Capt. Gene Tracysaid. Were preparing forthe worst power outages

and getting ready to cuttrees if they block theroads.

National Weather Servicemeteorologist Tim Axfordsaid the overwhelming ma-

jority of residents l ive in low-er elevations where signifi-cantly less snow was expect-ed. No significant power out-ages were reported Monday.

Colleges postponetheir deadlines(AP) | Sandy is buying somehigh school seniors a fewmore days to finish their ear-ly round college applica-tions, with a number of se-lective colleges extendingdeadlines that were set tofall later this week.

Most students applying tocollege face deadlines in Jan-

uary or on a rolling cyclethroughout the year, butmany selective schools haveearly decision, early ac-tion or priority roundswhose Nov. 1 deadlines forapplications and letters ofrecommendation fall onThursday this year.

With the storm threateningwidespread power outagesand other disruptions alongthe East Coast, the NationalAssociation for College Ad-mission Counseling called oncolleges to extend deadlinesif appropriate, and a numberof schools were announcingvia blog post, email or Twit-ter their plans to do so.

We hope this helps to re-lieve some of the stress andanxiety you might be feelingas the storm approachesyour region, Columbia saidin a message on its website.

In Brief

AP PHOTO

Sandbags and tape block the entrance Monday to the PATH train station inHoboken, N.J.

Leave imme-diately. ... Thewindow for yougetting out safelyis closing.

New York MayorMichael Bloomberg


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A5Tuesday, October 30, 2012BREAKING NEWS: lehighvalleylive.comENTERTAINMENT

DEAR ABBY: Chaplin,Conn., Reader (Aug. 16)suggested that teachers

should be sharing life les-sons with children.Unfortunately, many peo-

ple in our society believe it including parents. Studentscome to us with ever-in-creasing deficits in manynoncurricular areas. But it isNOT the job of public educa-tors to teach them the im-portance of families, helpinggrandparents, caring forhousehold pets, etc.

If these things come up inthe course of the day andthere is a need to addressthem, we try to clarify anymisconceptions. But takingtime to prepare and teach alesson on any of these small

but important subjects is nolonger an option. The de-mands placed on teacherstoday are vast and complex.Just getting parents to fol-low through at home onschool responsibilities is ajob in itself. Many of themdont seem to think theyneed to help their kids besuccessful in school.

SEEN IT ALLIn Michigan

DEAR SEEN IT ALL: Thankyou for your comments. Theletter from Chaplin, Conn.Reader brought a HUGEnumber of responses on thisissue, primarily from teach-

ers:DEAR ABBY: I haveworked in an elementaryschool for nine years.

A teacher is a counselor,doctor, social worker and be-havioral specialist all in one.Kids come to class dirty, hun-gry, tired, with no mannersor clue about the alphabet orcounting. Teachers havehalted lessons because achild is in a meltdown. Some

kids have never held a pencilor scissors, and dont knowhow to share or take direc-tions from an adult. Its sadto hear them say they haveno crayons at home or booksto read. As for testing, un-less the parents do THEIR

job, we will see little im-provement in scores. And no,I dont work in a big-cityschool district this is a nicesuburban area.

STILL LOVE MY JOB

DEAR ABBY: I spend halfmy teaching time on behav-ioral issues, social skills,bullying, how to work in agroup and just trying to holdkids attention. Many chil-dren today are so used toconstant stimulation fromTV, video games, texting,etc., that their attentionspans max out at 30 sec-onds. I practically have tosing and dance to reachthem or they tune out. I sug-

gest Chaplin go to aschool, volunteer, and try tobecome a part of the solu-tion instead of adding to theburden of already over-worked teachers.

TEACHING

In Tacoma

DEAR ABBY: You said par-ents should be the onesteaching the kinds of thingsthe Connecticut reader

wrote about. Then you askedwhere the parents are. Letme tell you! Theyre too busy

on their smartphones talkingto or fighting with their lat-est boy- or girlfriend, playingelectronic games, out drink-ing and partying so muchthey dont know or carewhere their kids are. Parentswho actually spend timewith their children and givethem undivided attentionare sadly in the minority.Those who help to teachthem are even fewer in num-ber.

KANSAS READER

DEAR ABBY: You are cor-rect that teachers are over-whelmed by many curricular,legislative and administra-tive demands. However, edu-

cators can continually instillmany of these life lessons in-to students by acting as posi-tive role models who consis-tently demonstrate core val-ues such as integrity, respectand determination. Studentstend to do and learn whatthey see even more thanwhat they are told by par-ents AND teachers.

ANNE

In Nevada

DEAR ABBY: I am a retiredphysical education teacher,One day during a healthclass, a mother of one of mystudents came to school andtold me I should teach

morals and manners toher daughter. My response:Maam, if you couldnt dothat in 14 years, I cant do itin 40 minutes a day.

REMEMBERS IT WELL

Dear Abby is written by AbigailVan Buren, also known as JeannePhillips, and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips. WriteDear Abby at DearAbby.com orP.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA90069.

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Almanac

Oct. 30, 2012Today: is the 304th day of2012. There are 62 days left inthe year.

On this date^ In 1938, the radio play TheWar of the Worlds, starringOrson Welles, aired on CBS.

^ In 2007, singer-actorRobert Goulet died at a LosAngeles hospital at age 73.

Todays birthdaysRock singer Grace Slick is 73.Actor Henry Winkler is 67. Ac-tor Kevin Pollak is 55.

The sun sets 5:59 p.m. today,rises 7:31 a.m. Wednesday.

The moon sets 8:14 a.m. to-day, rises 7:07 p.m. Wednes-day. It is two days after thefull moon.

100 years ago today1912: One tough battleship:New York, Oct. 30 The su-

per Dreadnaught New York,greatest of the worlds seafighters, was launched todayat the Brooklyn Navy Yard inthe presence of 40,000 per-sons, including President Taftand the Secretary of theNavy. Miss Elsie Calder,daughter of Rep. W.M. Calder,of Brooklyn, christened theship. To Miss Calders greatconfusion, she failed to breakthe champagne bottle on thevessels bow. She struck thevessel with the bottle threetimes, but not with sufficient

force to break the glass. Asthe vessel was sliding downthe ways, however, a mangrasped the rope to whichwas attached the bottle andswung with such force thatthe bottle cleared the NewYorks prow and burst with agreat pop on the port side.

50 years ago today1962: No love lost: The an-tagonism between factions of

the Phillipsburg Commissionwas demonstrated in the Hal-loween parade last nightwhen Commissioners AlfredKurland, Edward T. Reilly andGeorge Stewart declined toride in an official convertiblewith Commissioner Arthur W.Paini. The commissioners hadaccepted an invitation to ridein a car reserved for them.Kurland, Reilly and Stewartwere seated in the car in frontof the Municipal Buildingpreparatory to leaving for theformation point when Paini

appeared. When he got in,they got out.

25 years ago today1987: Out of this world (fromthe AP): Martians invadedthe tiny community ofGrovers Mill, N.J., again lastnight, but instead of beinggreeted by gun-toting locals

as they were 49 years ago,they were met by a marchingband and cheering crowd. Ittook a long time, but folks inthis village made famous onHalloween Eve 1938 by agroup of young actors finallycommemorated the War ofthe Worlds broadcast thatterrified millions of Ameri-cans and left many here try-ing to forget how they fled inpanic. This years Martians about 20 schoolchildrenwearing green face paint, sil-very green garbage bags andtin-foil antennae emittedno death rays or poisonousblack smoke, but only theharmless chant Beep-beep-beep. The town was the

beachhead of the fictitiousMartian landing on OrsonWelles all-too-convincing ra-dio program.

Quote of the dayNothing in life is to befeared. It is only to be under-stood. Marie Curie, PolishNobel Prize-winning chemist(1867-1934).

Almanac is compiled by PeteBrekus, Express-Times newsassistant. He can be reached at610-258-7171, or [email protected].

Henry WinklerJEANNEPHILLIPSDear Abby

Teachers have enough todo without doing it all

REVIEWASSOCIATED PRESS

By all accounts, Jay Moriar-itywas a lovely young man: atalented, dedicated surfer

whose enthusiasm and opti-mism were infectious through-out the Santa Cruz, Calif., com-munity where he was well

known and loved.But that doesnt exactly

make him the most compellingfigure to place at the center ofa film, at least not in the one-note way in which hes depict-ed in Chasing Mavericks.

This cloyingly family-friendly production tells thestory of the late surfer (played

by newcomer Jonny Weston)in 1994, when hes only 15years old and dares to take onthe dangerous and potentiallydeadly Mavericks surf break

just up the coast from hishome. Jay wants to conquerthese waves ... well, becausetheyre there. And he enlists agruff, reluctant local legend,Frosty (Gerard Butler), to help

him train.This sets up a Karate Kid-

style, mentor-student, father-son formula in which the

plucky underdog awakens ear-ly each day to complete a series

of arduous tasks in preparationfor a once-in-a-decade, five-story-tall wall of water. Everystep of the way is accompanied

by the plainly spelled-out rea-sons why it matters. Nothing isleft to our imagination or inter-

pretation.Not a single

character ormoment ringstrue in thescript fromKario Salem,

based on a sto-ry by JimM e e n a g h a nand BrandonHooper. No one feels like a ful-ly fleshed-out human being,

from Jays alcoholic mother(Elisabeth Shue, doing the bestshe can with an underwrittenrole) to the pretty childhoodfriend who would become thelove of his life (Leven Rambin)to the tough kid who arbitrari-ly bullies him. They are allcoming-of-age-movie types.

But this is most troublinglythe case with Jay himself who,in the hands of the angelic We-ston, comes off as singularlysweet and upbeat, without anounce of complexity or evengarden-variety teen angst. (JayMoriarity died in 2001, the day

before his 23rd birthday, in afree-diving accident in theMaldives.) With his curly

blond locks and big blue eyes,hes consistently eager andguileless and actually a little

boring, as is the film itself.Chasing Mavericks is

credited to two longtime direc-tors, Curtis Hanson andMichael Apted, because Apted

had to step in to complete thepicture when Hanson was suf-fering from some health issues.Some of the surfing footage isspectacular but the film as a

whole lacks the kind of tonaland aesthetic imprimatur

youd want to see from a re-spected veteran, much less

two.The film features somewell-known names from theworld of surfing but that does-nt add much authenticity; de-spite the inherent peril in-

volved in the sport, and in thisparticular location, everythingfeels very clean and safe. Thesurfer dudes dont go aroundspouting stereotypically idiot-ic bro slang to each other, butthey dont feel like real people,either.

Rated PG for thematic elementsand some perilous action.Running time: 115 minutes.

Mavericks is formulaic, safe

Butler


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BY MATTHEW YGLESIASSlate

WASHINGTON, D.C. |Whenever theres a majornatural disaster, the federal government steps into help. But that wouldnt necessarily be the caseif Mitt Romney got his way. During a 2011 GOP

primary debate he said it was immoral for thefederal government to be spending money ondisaster relief when it should be focused ondeficit reduction:

First Romney says: Every time you have anoccasion to take something from the federal gov-ernment and send it back to the states, thats theright direction. And if you can go even further,and send it back to the private sector, thats even

better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget,what we should cut, we should ask the oppositequestion, what should we keep?

Including disaster relief, though? debatemoderator John King asked Romney.

His response: We cannot we cannot af-ford to do those things without jeopardizing thefuture for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my

view, for us to continue to rack up larger andlarger debts and pass them on to our kids, know-ing full well that well all be dead and gone be-fore its paid off. It makes no sense at all.

More prosaically, though the Romney cam-paign was understandably circumspect over theweekend about his spending plans, the fact isthat his overall budget requires sharp cuts ineverything. The central issue is that Romney

wants to cap government spending at 20 percentof GDP while boosting military spending to 4

percent of GDP and leaving Social Securityharmless. That means a 34 percent across-the-board cut in other programs according to theCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities. Unless,that is, Medicare is also exempted from the cutsin which case youd need a 53 percent cut.

Disaster relief, I would argue, is a great feder-al program precisely because of the debt issue.

If a storm damages basic physical infrastruc-ture (power lines, bridges) and imperils humanlife, it would be the height of penny-wise, pound-foolish thinking to suppose that the afflicted areashould wait months or years to repair the dam-age. Ultimately, any place is going to go back torobust wealth creation faster if basic stuff getsfixed up faster. But that requires financing by anentity capable of rapidly financing expensive

projects i.e., the federal government. Left toits own devices a storm-ravaged Delaware orLouisiana is going to be squeezed between bal-

anced budget rules and falling sales tax receiptsand be forced into an increasing state of dilapi-dation

Matthew Yglesias is Slates business and economicscorrespondent.

Newspapers backingof Obama is appalling

Have The Express-Times editors beenhiding under a rock the last four years?

Newspapers and celebrities should notendorse politicians because they eitheroffend or influence and they should doneither. Newspapers should only inform.

And what has Obama done since 2008?We now have a debt that even our great-great-grandchildren will still be paying off.The job market has not improved except forseasonal help currently being hired. Theunemployment numbers are down becausethose no longer able to collect are not beingcounted.

Obamas advisers are radicals/social-ists/Marxists. Obamacare is worse than thesocialized medicine Europe had underHitler. Obama has cow-towed to our Muslimenemies and apologized for the great country

we are. Jobs for our kids graduating fromcollege will be road and bridge repair and

building windmills?With the price of gas as it is these kids

cant afford to use a car to get to that job.And The Express-Times endorses four moreyears of this? By 2016 we will be a socialistnation with a dictator instead of one nationunder God.

God help us all. To every Christianreading this: Please spend your time on your

knees praying.ELISABETH STOTT

Asbury

Endorsement editoriallacked solid foundation

I dont believe I have ever seen a morequestionable endorsement than The Express-Times recommendation to re-elect BarackObama.

The editorial acknowledges the need toreverse the direction of the debt andObamas role in creating $5 trillion in newdebt but, after saying that, it says Obama isthe one to solve the debt crisis. Thats likethe old joke of the man who killed his

parents and then asks the judge to showmercy because he is an orphan.

The editorial criticizes Mitt Romney forbeing vague about exactly what he will cutbut, when he does, his critics make it out as

another of their phony wars on something.He mentions cutting PBS and the left makesit a war on Big Bird. In any cut, someoneloses and there is pain involved but Romneyis smart to avoid this obvious political trap.

Did Obama lay out the plan forObamacare when he first ran for office? The

editorial acknowledges that Obamacare iscomplex and needs a lot of work. Could that

be because it was written in a hurry by oneparty in complete control without the demo-cratic ability or bipartisanship to work withthe other side? I won is not a plan or agood start toward fostering a spirit of coop-eration.

Romney has proven he can work in abipartisan manner with a sharply dividedlegislature while Obama, faced with a less-divided legislature, has failed. As the edito-rial says, Obamas approach is known butdoing the same thing again for the next four

years hoping for different results is not agood plan.

We need new leadership with a new planand a record of success.

BEN H. HEDRICKBethlehem Township, Pa.

Support for second term

intellectually dishonestI dont think I have read a more intellec-

tually dishonest editorial than the onewritten on Sunday (Re-elect Obama fordebt crisis solution). The title alone is acontradiction and what was written just gets

worse. If one wonders why this country isgoing to hell in a handbasket one can look nofurther then this editorial.

BOB PACEIndependence Township

Tell us the truth aboutkillings in Benghazi

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta needs tostep down and let us know what really

happened at the consulate in Benghazi andwho gave the order not to try to save the lasttwo SEALs who were murdered.

The BS from his statement that theydidnt want to move more troops into thearea because they didnt have the whole

picture and was concerned they would loseeven more is crap.

I am a Vietnam vet. I know the best intel-ligence you can get in a combat situation isfrom people on the ground and observationfrom aircraft above the fray. To suggest to thenation we didnt know what we were gettinginto is just a lie. The decisions leading up tothe murder of these four Americans and thefiasco of a cover-up after the fact have been

purely political, and someone needs to beheld accountable.

Our president needs to prove he iscompetent by getting the real story told andthe people responsible held accountable nomatter how high up the chain of commandthey are. That includes him if he made the

call to leave our people to die.No more politics; this has to happen prior

to the election so we know how to vote. If itdoesnt happen before Nov. 6, it should tellall of us how to vote.

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I have never considered myselfmuch of a marching band fan but, on a

whim, my family and I attended theNeil Boyer Festival of Bands last weekat Phillipsburg High School.

To our surprise, we had a terrifictime and my 5-year old son insisted onstaying until the very end. The bands

were fun to watch, whether large orsmall, and all put on a great show. Bythe end of the evening, we weresurrounded in the bleachers bystudents from bands that had already

performed and they were an attentiveaudience and great sports, cheering

heartily for bands from other schools.Hats off to all the performers and to

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years festival!CATHY FENWICK

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BY COLIN MCEVOYThe Express-Times

ALLENTOWN | The Bethle-hem man who repeatedlystabbed a Catasauqua teenduring a fight in a borough

park could spend up to adecade behind bars.

Nathanael Claudio, 20,pleaded guilty Monday to ag-gravated assault, admitting hestabbed 17-year-old AnthonyHarris five times in the uppertorso at St. John Street Park onMarch 23.

After the stabbing, Claudiofled the park, discarded his

bloody clothes in a nearbystream and then texted a

woman asking for a ride, ac-cording to testimony.

I (expletive)ed up. ... I just

stabbed someone in Catty,Claudio wrote in the text mes-sage, according to LehighCounty First Deputy District

Attorney Steven Luksa.The stabbing occurred af-

ter a group of people from

Whitehall Township, includ-ing Claudio, came to the park

for an arranged fight with an-other group from Catasauqua,according to court testimony.

Harris was not originallypart of the fight but was play-ing basketball with friends atthe park when he saw the fightand attempted to intervene,Luksa said.

A man named Steven fromthe Whitehall Townshipgroup was beating up a juve-nile identified as Mr. Drag-on, Luksa said. Harris brokethem up and said to Steven,Pick on somebody your ownsize.

Harris and Steven thenstarted fighting, during whichtime Claudio drew two knives

he brought to the fight andstarted stabbing Harris, ac-cording to testimony.

Claudio entered a pleaMonday of guilty but mental-ly ill. His attorney, Irene

Johns, said he has bipolar dis-

order with psychosis and wasnot on his medication at the

time of the stabbing.Claudio, wearing a blue

jumpsuit and a scruffy beardduring his court appearance,did not speak except to an-swer questions by JudgeMaria Dantos.

Is that what happened?Dantos asked. Did you stabthe victim in this case, Mr.Harris?

Yes maam, Claudio re-sponded.

He faces a sentence of fiveto 10 years in state prison un-der the plea, but Dantos post-

poned the sentencing to allowfor evaluations and so thatHarris can be present tospeak.

Harris was unable to at-tend Mondays hearing, butLuksa said his family agrees

with the plea bargain. Harrisfoster mother was present inthe courtroom but did notspeak.

Plea bargain in stabbingof teen during park fight

In Brief

Man admits sexualassault on teenALLENTOWN | An Allentownman admitted Monday tothe 2006 sexual assault of a16-year-old girl, who gavebirth as a result.

Robert Aponte, 57, pleadedguilty to a sexual offense,admitting he molested theteen at some point betweenJanuary and June 2006.

The woman had a child, whois now 6, but did not knowAponte was the father untilshortly after she ap-proached police earlier thisyear to report the sexual as-sault.

DNA testing results con-firmed a 99.9 percent prob-ability that Aponte was thechilds father, said Lehigh

County Chief Deputy DistrictAttorney Matthew Falk.

The sexual assault tookplace in Allentown, accord-ing to court testimony.

Under the terms of the

guilty plea, Aponte will re-ceive a minimum prison sen-tence likely 24 to 36months, according to hispublic defender, RichardWebster.

Aponte, wearing a blue

prison jumpsuit and dark-rimmed glasses, did notspeak during his court ap-pearance except to yes andno answer questions fromJudge Maria Dantos. He willbe sentenced at a later date.

Official admits tourinating in publicALLENTOWN | MacungieCouncilman Linn Walker ad-mitted Monday to urinatingon his neighbors propertylast summer.

He pleaded guilty to disor-derly conduct before LehighCounty Judge James Antho-ny, who fined him $150 for

the summary offense.The district attorneys of-fice withdrew open lewd-ness and public drunken-ness charges against Walk-er in exchange for his plea.

Police say Walker had beendrinking on the afternoonof Aug. 3 when he relievedhimself, wetting a neigh-bors porch pad, gardenhose and gas can. Witness-es told police the council-man routinely urinated out-side his home where otherscould see him, according totestimony during a prelimi-nary hearing for the case.

You have to at least makean effort to go somewhereprivate, Anthony noted.

The 67-year-old councilmantold the judge, I wont dothis again.

As a councilman, Walker isexpected to set an examplein his community, FirstDeputy District AttorneySteven Luksa said. Publicurination is unsanitaryand unsightly, he said.

Walker declined commentafter the hearing, but de-fense attorney Al Stirba IVsaid the charge to whichhis client pleaded guiltyand Anthonys sentence areappropriate given the factsof the case.


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BY DAVID FOSTER

The Express-TimesBETHLEHEM | After last

years ordeal with TropicalStorm Irene, Hellertown resi-dent Jabiel Ruiz wasnt takingany chances with its strongercounterpart.

Last year, I got caught,Ruiz said. We had no heat, noelectricity. My kids got sick andall the food spoiled.

To ride out HurricaneSandy, Ruiz took himself and

his five children Monday to theAmerican Red Cross of theGreater Lehigh Valleys emer-gency shelter, which opened atUGI, 2121 City Line Road.

I dont care about me, but Ineed to make sure my kids are

safe, Ruiz said.As of Monday afternoon,

about 15 residents had alreadytaken advantage of the Carbon,Lehigh and Northampton shel-ter that is stocked with food,

water and cots.Red Cross spokeswoman

Janice Osborne said the shelterhas a capacity of 100.

Were striving to open an-other one if this one gets to ca-

pacity, Osborne said.She urged residents to stay

home unless they are told to beevacuated or experience poweroutages.

If youre in harms way def-initely go to a shelter, Osbornesaid. Were prepared for situ-ations like this.

People are not allowed tobring their pets into the emer-gency shelter, but there is an an-imal shelter run by the Lehigh

Valley County Animal Re-sponse Team in a garage in the

back of the building.

Lehigh Valley CARTspokeswoman Donna Lago-marsino said the shelter was setup for a capacity of 10 animals

but could possibly accommo-date up to 30.

Please dont leave your an-imals behind, Lagomarsinostressed.

The group is asking pet own-ers to bring a weeks supply offood, medication with directionsand vaccination records. Also,owners could bring treats, blan-

kets, toys and the like to makepets feel safe and comfort them.

Lagomarsino said residentscould alert Red Cross staff atthe emergency shelter whenthey check in that they have a

pet with them and a Lehigh Val-ley CART representative willescort them to the animal shel-ter.

Anyone with questionsabout the animal shelter can

call 610-390-0088.

Warren County also hasemergency shelters.

The Goodwill Fire Co.s sta-tion at 689 Water St. inBelvidere is designated as ashelter, said Frank Wheatley,the Warren County emergencymanagement coordinator. Res-idents must bring their own

bedding.Other municipalities also

have designated shelters suchas Phillipsburg at PhillipsburgHigh School, 200 HillcrestBlvd., and Blairstown Town-ship at the North Warren Re-gional High School, 10 NoeRoad.

A Hunterdon County shel-ter has been set up in Raritan

Township at Building No. 1 ofthe countys facility at 314 Route12. Those reporting to the shel-ter are asked to bring their own

basic comfort items and any re-quired medication.

BY ZACH LINDSEYThe Express-Times

Local officials are countingon backup generators and grav-ity distribution systems to pre-

vent any interruptions in waterservice for residents who usemunicipal water in Bethlehem,Easton and western New Jer-sey.

But flooding could causeproblems for Bethlehemswastewater treatment plant,and flood conditions couldcause problems for homeown-ers who rely on well pumps.

There should not be serviceinterruptions at Easton Subur-ban Water Authority.

Our backup generators areall at the pumping stations, andtheyre all filled with gas andready to go, said Erin Rapp,customer relations manager forEaston Suburban Water Au-thority. Unless were unable toget there to refill gas tanks,

well be fine.In New Jersey, the story is

similar. Aqua New Jersey rep-resentative Donna Alston saidall major facilities have inde-

pendent electric generators,which are fueled and ready fora power loss, and Aqua hasspare mobile generators in case

any of the generators fail.While Aqua will have emer-gency personnel available inthe event of life-threateningemergencies, most of their re-sponses to the flooding will bedelayed until the severe por-tion of the storm is over, ac-cording to Alston.

Local call centers, such asthe one in Phillipsburg, will beopen from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,and emergency calls are ac-cepted 24 hours a day, Alstonsaid.

Bethlehems system is agravity-fed system that doesntrely on pumps to get water tothe treatment plant or to mostcustomers.

But within the citys distri-bution system there are sever-al tanks on higher elevationsthat require pumping. DavidBrong, the citys water andsewer resources director, saidthose pump stations have gen-erators as well.

If we lose power, wed justhave to send one of our staffmembers up to the site and turnthe generator on, Brong said.

The concern for Brong iswastewater treatment.

Sometimes we have such ahigh amount of inflow into oursystem that it causes problemsat our plant, Brong said.

With the estimated amountof rain the city will see as a re-

sult of the storm, some backupis a certainty, he said.

There are two separate anddistinct power feeds to the

wastewater treatment plant,

and the plant will have poweras long as one is serviceable.

But in the event storm wa-ter creates a serious backup,the city could be forced to send

water through a minimal treat-ment process. The worst-casescenario would be a shutdownof the plant, which, in othercommunities, has meant a ruleagainst flushing toilets or usingshowers or sinks.

But Brong said this scenariois highly unlikely because of thetwo different electrical feeds.

Well water

For residents who use pri-vate well pumps, flooding andaccompanying power outagescould mean a lengthy period

without water.Jake Kocher, president and

owner of Kochers WaterPumps and Tanks of Bath, rec-ommended people with wellsfill their bathtubs for water toflush toilets.

If your tub is clean, you caneven cook with it, Kocher said.If you boil it, its good to go.

But beyond the temporaryloss of water, there is a seriousrisk of contamination of a wellif the well head becomes sub-merged underwater.

If that happens, Kocher saidhomeowners must chlorinatethe well with well sanitizer orClorox.

Youve got to make sure todo that to every fixture in the

house, Kocher said. It willsanitize the well, but youre go-ing to have to run a bacterialtest in about a week to makesure its cleared up.

When pipes run empty, thewell must be shocked to pre-vent bacterial growth. In apinch, Kocher said residentscan use a cup of Clorox bleachin the filter to temporarily san-itize the house.

Reporter Zach Lindsey can bereached at 610-258-7171 [email protected] @ZachJLindsey on Twitter.

A7Tuesday, October 30, 2012BREAKING NEWS: lehighvalleylive.comHURRICANE SANDY

Tapping intowater serviceshould be OKAREA OFFICIALSbelieve use of generators willinsure a continuous flow to municipal users.

BY TOM SHORTELLThe Express-Times

Officials in Pennsylvania,New Jersey and New Yorkurged commuters to stay

home as major roads and pub-lic transportation throughoutthe region were shut downdue to Hurricane Sandy.

Motorists throughout east-ern Pennsylvania were ad-

vised to stay off the roads dueto the increasing wind speeds

hitting the Northeast.Steve Chizmar, press sec-retary for the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Transporta-tion, said Monday most roads

were open to traffic, but mo-torists should bunker downfor the approaching storm.

If conditions worsen roadscould be closed to everyoneexcept emergency personnel.Its not clear if or when it willcome to that point, however.

Theres not really a strawthat breaks the camels back

here, Chizmar said. Wewant as many motorists aspossible to stay off the roadnow.

He noted that every per-

son stranded on the roads isanother person emergency re-sponders must attend to and

put themselves at risk.Joe Dee, a spokesman for

the New Jersey Departmentof Transportation, said simi-lar requests were being madeof New Jersey drivers.

Since Sunday, there hadbeen 63 incidents on stateroads, some of which are

weather related, Dee said. Asthe storm strengthened, thosefigures are expected to sky-rocket, he said.

Its just not worth goingout on the roads, especially asthe later we go, the worse itsgoing to get, he said.

Emergency speed limits of45 mph were being enforcedon most major highways, in-cluding Interstates 76, 78 and81, Routes 22 and 33 and thePennsylvania Turnpike, ac-cording to a PennDOT newsrelease. Vehicles includingmotorcycles, empty tractor-trailers, overweight trucksand recreational vehicles

were banned from the roads.All LANTA bus routes

were canceled for today ac-cording to the LANTA web-site. Officials may open upsome routes later in the daydepending on the weather,the announcement said. Callsto LANTA offices were not

returned.Trans-Bridge Lines bus

routes to Jersey City, Newarkand New York City along withNewark Liberty and JFK in-ternational airports for today

had been canceled, said Pres-ident Tom JeBran. Similarly,Easton Coach and Phillips-

burg Coach were shut down,he said.

Nearly all Delaware RiverJoint Toll Bridges are stillopen, including the Interstate80 toll bridge and the Easton-Phillipsburg toll bridge, ac-cording to the commissions

websit e. Only the Lum-berv ille-Raven Rock Toll-Supported Bridge between

Hunterdon County andBucks County was closed tothe public because Bulls Is-land State Park on the New

Jersey side was shut down forthe day.

In New Jersey, Gov. ChrisChristie tweeted the GardenState Parkway was beingclosed from Exit 129 on southas of 4 p.m. Monday. On thenorthern end of the state, theHolland Tunnel was shutdown at 2 p.m. Travelers wereadvised to find an alternatecrossing, according to anoth-er release.

There were no plans toshut down state highways, butsome restrictions were in

place for the New JerseyTurnpike, Dee said. Motorcy-cles and passenger vehicles

hauling trailers were restrict-ed from the road, and speedlimits have been dropped to45 mph, he said.

Stay offroads,states

pleadBUSES, OTHER PUBLICTRANSIT also shut downin Pa., N.J., by Sandy.

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Tsewang Guyrme, top, manager of the U.S. Fuel gas station in Phillipsburg, putsbubble and shrink wrap around his new gas pumps Monday. Bottom, neighborsgather to see a maple tree that split in two Monday due to high winds on HudsonStreet in Phillipsburg.

BY PRECIOUS PETTYThe Express-Times

HANOVER TWP. | LehighValley International Airportcanceled all incoming and out-going flights Monday as Hur-ricane Sandy approached theregion, according to the air-

ports Facebook page.The airport was still open

despite the flight cancella-

tions. The last arriving flightcame in at 7:30 a.m. Monday,and the last departing flighttook off at 10 a.m., according toLVIA spokeswoman SusanKittle.

The decision to cancelflights comes down to safety,she said.

When you have the highsustained winds, flying the air-craft is an issue, Kittle said.The airport doesnt want pas-

sengers trying to get to the air-port (in this weather).

Theres also the risk offlooding on the runways,

which may not be as large aconcern here as it is for theNew Jersey and New York air-

ports, she adds.The airport was relatively

empty. Kittle explained that asan originating airport, and nota hub that offers connectingflights, theres no reason for

passengers to stick around.Sisters Marci and Marilyn

McDonald flew in from St. Pe-tersburg, Fla., recently to helpa friend move from CarbonCounty to Lehigh County.

They arrived Mondaymorning at LVIA to find thattheir flight home had beencanceled, so theyre going tospend at least one more night

with their friend in her newWhitehall Township home.

The siblings still haventdecided whether to cross their

fingers for a flight or to find away south. Weve been think-ing about driving and trainsand buses, Marci McDonaldsaid.

A lot of stranded passen-gers are opting to drive, saidlongtime National Car Rentalemployee Audrey Berkheiser.Its been absolutely crazy.

When one couples Alle-giant Air flight was canceled,they opted to rent a car anddrive to Miami in time to

board their cruise ship,

Berkheiser said.Denver residents Jim Orsiand Gabrielle Popoff were in

Washington, D.C., for an aca-demic conference and had

planned to fly home Sunday.After their flight was can-

celed, the couple opted todrive to the Lehigh Valley andstay with Orsis family in Low-er Saucon Township whilethey wait for a flight to Col-orado out of LVIA, he said.

LVIA grounds all its flightsFOR SAFETYS SAKE,airport tells ridersto stay home.

Shelters offer safe havens in storm


8/16

BY SARAH M. WOJCIKThe Express-Times

HELLERTOWN | A boroughteenager stands accused of chok-ing and assaulting his pregnantgirlfriend, court records say.

Richard Aaron York III, 19,of the 700 block of Front Street,allegedly attacked Kaylee O-Donnell when an argument es-calated Friday evening.

Police found ODonnell,who is 19 weeks pregnant, in aside parking lot of Murray Mo-tors near the Dunkin Donutsshop, court records say. ODon-nell was reportedly hysterical

and showed signs of injury, in-cluding bleeding, missingchunks of hair, cuts as well asredness, swelling and bruising

on her neck, court records say.York allegedly grabbed O-

Donnell by the neck during theargument and threw her to theground before choking her andcovering her mouth.

You had better stop cryingor I will kill you, York alleged-ly told ODonnell.

When he released the vic-tim, ODonnell said she re-minded him that she was preg-nant with his child, court pa-

pers say. York allegedly came ather again and assaulted her inthe same way.

When ODonnell tried to

walk away from him, court pa-pers say, York grabbed herpurse, pulled out her cellphoneand threw it to the ground.

Police say York tried to runaway when authorities first at-tempted an arrest. He returnedto the Front Street home a shorttime later, authorities say, and

was taken into custody.York was arraigned before

District Judge James Narleskyon charges of aggravated as-sault, terroristic threats, simpleassault, disorderly conduct, ha-rassment, underage drinkingand criminal mischief.

He was sent to Northamp-ton County Prison in lieu of$20,000 bail, records say.

Reporter Sarah M. Wojcik can be

reached at 610-258-7171, ext. 3201,or [email protected] @Sarah_M_Wojcik onTwitter.

Teacher died from

head injuriesHANOVER TWP. | Pen ArgylArea High School teacher An-gela R. Pessina died from se-vere head injuries following acrash early Sunday on Route22 in Hanover Township,Lehigh County, the countycoroners office said Mondayin a news release.

Pessina, 29, of the 700 block

of Benner Road, Allentown,

was a Spanish teacher at thehigh school, according to aschool Facebook page. Sheworked for about five years atthe school, Principal John C.Smith said Sunday night whilenot identifying Pessina.

Pessina was driving a MercuryMariner when she rear-endeda Freightliner box truck driv-en by Paul David Haney about2:41 a.m., Pennsylvania State

Police at Bethlehem reported.

Pessina didnt see slowedtraffic from a previous acci-dent, police said.

The Mariner became trappedunder the truck and Pessinahad to be cut from the vehi-cle, police said.

She died at 4:29 a.m. atLehigh Valley Hospital in Sal-isbury Township, the coro-ners office said, attributingthe death to the accident.

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BY SARA WOJCIKThe Express-Times

BETHLEHEM |A 22-year-old

Bethlehem man was in seriouscondition Monday after beingstabbed early Sunday morningin a home invasion, accordingto city police.

The victim, whom policehave declined to identify duringthe investigation, was reported-ly stabbed three times during anattempted robbery at the apart-ment where he was staying inthe 800 block of Main Street.

Police learned of the stab-bing after receiving a call fromSt. Lukes University Hospitalin Fountain Hill about 6:30 a.m.

Sunday. Hospital staff say thevictim was driven to the hospi-tal by a friend and needed im-

mediate medical attention andsurgery, according to police.Lt. Mark DiLuzio said au-

thorities learned the victim wasoriginally from New York but

was living locally. He was stay-ing in the Main Street apart-ment with an adult female, twoadult males and a 10-year-oldchild at the time of the incident,DiLuzio said.

Sometime between 6 a.m.and 6:25 a.m., two men, onearmed with a knife, barged in-to the apartment and came atthe victim, demanding to know

where money was being kept,according to police. DiLuziosaid the victim was stabbed

during this encounter, but noone else in the apartment washarmed.

The only description policehave of the suspects is that theywere light-skinned males andone was wearing a grey hood-ed sweatshirt, DiLuzio said. Hesaid police received only limit-ed information from witnesses,

but are still trying to obtainmore detail.

DiLuzio said the investiga-tion is ongoing. Police suspectdrugs and gang activity may

have played a role.

Police believe drugsplayed role in knifing

Man charged with assault

of his pregnant girlfriend

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