BRITISH nationals forced to leave their belongings behind in hotels when they fled the killer storm, are being issued with emergency passports in a bid to get them home safely.
AS America continued to clean up after super-storm Sandy yesterday the mayor of New York vowed “we’ll get through this together”.
Michael Bloomberg rang the bell to start trading at the New York Stock Exchange, which opened again after
two days, the first closure blamed on weather since the 19th century.
Bloomberg said: “We will get through this by doing what we always do in tough times – by standing shoulder to shoulder, ready to help a neighbour, comfort a stranger and get the city we love back on its feet.”
The city’s two main airports, JFK and Newark, reopened yesterday.
But it could take four or five days before New York’s subway is running again.
All 10 tunnels were flooded and the cost of repairing the system could run into millions of dollars.
More than 337,000 homes were still without power in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and it could be four days before they are reconnected. It could take at least a week to restore power to other parts of the city.
A Scot cheated death during the storm when the car he was in was flattened by a huge tree.
Stuart Middleton, from Prestwick, Ayrshire, was returning to a relative’s home near New York at the time.
Across the East Coast a total of 6.5million homes and business are still without power including four million in New York and New Jersey.
In New Jersey, where the the storm caused the most damage, President Barack Obama spent his third day away from the campaign trail to visit those affected.
Officers from the National Guard continued to search for victims in New Jersey, helping evacuate thousands still stuck in their homes in the city of Hoboken.
Barry Prezioso, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, returned to his home for the first time since Sandy hit and surveyed the damage.
He said: “It’s heartbreaking after being here 37 years.
“But nobody got hurt and the upstairs is still liveable. I’m sure there’s people that had worse. I feel kind of lucky.”
In Breezy Point in Queens a huge blaze destroyed more than 100 homes.
John Frawley, who ignored orders to leave and stayed in his house, said he spent the night terrified “not knowing if the fire was going to come up to my house.”
He said: “I stayed up all night. The screams. The fire. It was horrifying.”
British nationals forced to leave their belongings in hotels when they fled the storm are being issued with emergency passports to help them get home.
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