In Brick, a middle-class community of 75,000 said to have more oceanfront property than any other town in New Jersey, the storm rendered more than 200 homes uninhabitable, including 109 that burned just after the hurricane hit land.
But some 200 of the city's 1,400 schools had experienced damage from the storm, rendering them "not operational," Department of Education spokesperson Erin Hughes told GothamSchools.
To the north of Charleston, at Sullivan's Island, the storm rendered 15 to 20 houses uninhabitable; although the island was mostly inundated, many residences were saved, encircled by dunes, and several men rescued women and children.
Waiting in line for water at the Miccio Community Center, Singley said that her mother, who last month had a heart attack, hasn't been able to leave her apartment since the storm rendered the elevator useless.
The day before, an ice storm had rendered the city impassable, but some shift in the Gulf Stream had warmed the air overnight.
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"Prolonged heat waves and desert dust storms can render some regions uninhabitable, which will surely contribute to the pressure to migrate," Lelieveld said in a statement.
It was also predicted that the standing water caused by the storm surge would render most of the city uninhabitable for weeks and that the destruction of oil and petrochemical refineries in the surrounding area would spill waste into the flooding.
Today, his temples greying, his approval ratings sharply down, Obama is at the centre of an anti-establishment storm that threatens to render impossible the notion of effective, consistent governance.
Thereafter, melancholy pieces like Dana Gioia's "House," heard in two versions (for solo baritone, and later for quartet), were offset by a lively, driven setting of Lisel Mueller's "Storm" and a comic rendering, full of interplay between the vocalists, of Juliet Wilson's haiku "Snoring".
