Sailing speed record

Sixty-five knots! In a sailboat!

That is just incredible.

Looks Like Even New Yorkers are Willing to Fight Back.

I don't feel the least bit sorry for those who didn't prepare (They had how many days notice?) but it is good to see that there is some spirt of resistance still left even in NYC.

Queens residents arm themselves in the post-storm blackout from looters

When night falls in the Rockaways, the hoods come out.

Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend against looters.

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