Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
At La Guardia Airport, and other airports in the New York area, flights have been canceled in anticipation of the coming northeaster.
Little more than a week after Hurricane Sandy whipped the New York area with brutal winds and a record storm surge, officials mobilized for a northeaster that threatened to deliver more of the same, though in smaller amounts, along with wet snow in places where frustration continued to run high.
The city, citing a concern about a storm surge of three to five feet at high tide on Wednesday afternoon, encouraged residents of neighborhoods flooded by Hurricane Sandy to leave and seek shelter in places away from low-lying areas. Two neighborhoods in Queens, Breezy Point and Hamilton Beach, and one in Brooklyn, Gerritsen Beach, were particularly worrisome to city
Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/nyregion/new-york-officials-brace-for-storm-telling-residents-to-seek-shelter.html
