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NYC Marathon unsure how to get runners to starting line
NY Post ^ | 11/2/12 | Associated Press

Posted on 11/02/2012 12:27:02 PM PDT by jimbo123

The New York City Marathon is still unsure how it will get its runners to the starting line Sunday, yet another obstacle in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

A day after New York Road Runners President Mary Wittenberg said ferries would again take some entrants to the start on Staten Island, marathon organizers said they might not be used.

Wittenberg had said final transportation plans would be announced Friday morning. Those plans now may not come until Saturday.

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To: Wuli

It’s easy for me to laugh, I’m not there.
should be interesting to see how this stacks up
t0 Katrina.


21 posted on 11/02/2012 1:43:01 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

“... fought in a battle...”

Knowing how the Staten Islanders feel...this year’s marathon may include a battle or two (...as it should!).


22 posted on 11/02/2012 1:46:23 PM PDT by moovova (The infamous 3am call FINALLY came. Obama took the call...and then rolled over & went back to sleep.)
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To: jimbo123

I lived through hurricane Hugo here in SC and there was one business which did everything in it’s power to help.

They GAVE AWAY water and ice, they attached head lights to shopping carts connected to car batteries so people could shop for the barest necessities and any groceries they had left.

Because it is non-union business, I’m wondering if Walmart is being ALLOWED to help in this disaster?

Anyone?


23 posted on 11/02/2012 1:58:17 PM PDT by RetSignman (REMEMBER THE 2010 MOVEMENT)
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To: tet68

The primary difference between Katrina and Sandy is not the extent of the damage, or the factual FEMA response, or the numbers of people endangered or the numbers of people still suffering four days after the storms’ landfall - Sandy may score higher on all of those.

The biggest difference is a media that used a crisis to go after a president and now paints 100% similar circumstances after a similar crisis as irrelevant to the performance of a president they worked so hard to elect.

The truth may be less than something in the middle. The truth may be that they are so trecherous in that they are now giving federal officials the benefit of the doubt (FEMA acts on locally determined requirements and locally determined targets), the more honest benefit of the doubt that they denied to George W. Bush, because like Axelrod they “could not let a crisis go to waste”.


24 posted on 11/02/2012 2:01:21 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: AliVeritas

I think I heard the audio 2x on Hannity; did you?

NJ/NY unions: “Don’t believe your lying ears!”

LOL. This is going to come back to bite them in the ass. And it’s going to get really ugly, soon.

Popcorn?


25 posted on 11/02/2012 2:17:11 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ("0bummer's a towering figure" - even a Garden Gnome casts a long shadow at sunset.)
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To: jimbo123

It’s just been cancelled. Thank God.


26 posted on 11/02/2012 2:20:04 PM PDT by adc
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