Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Hurricane Sandy: Long Island Braces For Flooding, Power Outages

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Hurricane Sandy: Long Island Braces For Flooding, Power Outages
Oct 28th 2012, 23:00

NEW YORK -- Howard Pavane made it through Hurricane Irene with just a few hours to spare. He's worried Sandy will be worse.

The 62-year-old songwriter has multiple medical complications as a result of having polio in 1954. Pavane, who lives in New Hyde Park, a town on Long Island's north shore, prefers to use an electronic wheelchair to move around, and depends on his nebulizer to breathe during asthma attacks.

"It can be an issue if we lose power for a long time," he said. His nebulizer's batteries are currently broken, so it only works when it's plugged in to a power source -- and asthma has hit him hard this weekend. So if the power blows, he said he might not be able to breathe.

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