If buildings and roads need to be decontaminated, that could be accomplished by other relatively simple methods like wiping, power-washing or steam-cleaning, unless the cesium is deep.
The storm wiped out power for roughly eight million people in the mid-Atlantic region.
Meanwhile races in the national toboggan championships were postponed for a day on Saturday Hundreds of thousands of residents in Massachusetts were without electricity Saturday morning after heavy snow and winds wiped out power lines.
A storm system slid across the Northeast yesterday, with snow, sleet and freezing rain glazing roads and turning lawns white, after it tied up air travel in the Midwest and wiped out power for thousands of customers.
Within hours of the tent destruction, as the storm pelted the area with egg-size hail, uprooted trees and wiped out power, nearly 20,000 people headed to a downtown arena to watch the hockey team, the Blues, host Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.
It had been more than two weeks since Maria hit, and almost a month since Irma first wiped out power across much of Puerto Rico, but Nazario told us that she had yet to receive the satellite phone she'd been promised from FEMA.
But coming a little over a week after Sandy wiped out power to millions of customers across the north-east, concern has turned to those still cut off and how they intend to keep warm In advance of the fresh wave of bad weather, authorities in New York City took precautions including the closing of all parks and beaches, while urging the partial evacuation of coastal areas.
The utility has struggled to escape the headlines since Hurricane Maria wiped out power to all of Puerto Rico on Sept. 20.
The Conservatives, who were wiped from power on October 19, even suggested expanding the ban to all public servants.
As many of you now know, the city that never sleeps was pretty dark last week when Hurricane Sandy wiped out power to much of lower Manhattan.
Floodwaters had already wiped out power at a data center serving Staten Island University Hospital, forcing the hospital to shut down its electronic recordkeeping system.
