{"id":672,"date":"2012-10-29T01:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2012-10-29T01:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T01:32:33","slug":"hurricane-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/29\/hurricane-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-673\" title=\"19961648_SS\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/hl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/19961648_SS-300x223.jpg\" \/>For the second straight year, Halloween week has presented the Tri-State area with its most perplexing storm of the season.\u00a0 Last year, a Halloween snowstorm which dropped heavy wet snow on top of trees who still had their leaves caused severe infrastructure issues and power outages all over the region.\u00a0 And this year, it was Hurricane Sandy.\u00a0 This was no joke in an area of the country not particularly used to storms of this magnitude and undeniably the most populous area of the country.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The damage and loss were truly unprecedented.\u00a0 And although we count our blessings because were are safe and relatively unharmed, we are just one degree of separation away from people who are either temporarily or permanently separated from their homes, their possessions, and their loved ones.\u00a0 Power will be out for days if not weeks.\u00a0 Schools are closed because it&#8217;s not safe to return or because power is out for indefinite periods of time.\u00a0 My wife, who is a reading specialist, has had six days off from school this season &#8211; this season being Fall &#8211; a full six weeks shy of winter&#8217;s start.<\/p>\n<p>We lost power for just over a day, and really only half the power in our unit was affected.\u00a0 We were able to plug our refrigerator into a working outlet and so we lost nothing.\u00a0 We had no heat or no hot water, but again, just for a little over a day.\u00a0 My parents were without power for nearly a week, and my inlaws nearly the same.\u00a0 At this point, all that&#8217;s remaining to return is cable and internet service.<\/p>\n<p>I am overwhelmed by the offers of support from friends and colleagues all over the nation who are seeing the damage on the news.\u00a0 I am extremely appreciate too, of the patience clients and suppliers alike have shown, as I work to get operating phones and internet capability.\u00a0 It will take a lot more than this to bring Hotel Lobbyists&#8217; operation to a halt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight year, Halloween week has presented the Tri-State area with its most perplexing storm of the season.\u00a0 Last year, a Halloween snowstorm which dropped heavy wet snow on top of trees who still had their leaves caused severe infrastructure issues and power outages all over the region.\u00a0 And this year, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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