emergency in new jersey and also flash-flood emergency, as well. so are people trying to get into hotels? are you have you tried have you gone that route route? i haven t done that, yet. but listening to the radio, there is a lots of people like me sitting in their cars for hours on the turnpike on the parkway, on route 287. so this this just overwhelmed the highways. uh-huh. so, if you work if you work for the power company, what i want to know is that did you guys expect this? or is that not yeah, yep. i don t know if we expected the usually, we re more concerned with the wind. um, and things like that. that are going to take that take out the power. we do have substantial i think outages today in new jersey with all three companies. but this i think it was yesterday, yeah, we were prepared. we were all on we were all on storm-duty prep as of this morning. so the the power companies are always a day ahead and a step ahead.
drivers are still facing long lines, frustrations are only growing and it now appears that there will be shortages for possibly another couple weeks. shepard: so now drivers in new york city and out on long island will be using the even/odd system so people with license plates that end with an odd number can fill up on odd number days and the opposite on even numbered days. the new normal for the foreseeable future. rick leventhal on storm duty yet again tonight. this time on staten island. gas lines frankly that may be the least of their worries there. absolutely. shepard. the residents here massive struggle to try to save their homes. this street in staten island is a full mile from the ocean. yet, they had 12 feet of water here and were surrounded by piles of debris. when we got here earlier today, there were big sanitation trucks and front end loaders scooping up the debris by the shovel full and by the clawful. dumping it into the trucks and