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Brown: LIPA can't weather Sandy firestorm

A LIPA Tree Clearance Crew removes downed trees

Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | A LIPA Tree Clearance Crew removes downed trees from Sandy on Lefferts Rd. near Bayberry Ave. in Garden City. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Nine days after superstorm Sandy, too many neighborhoods, too many households here remain islands of despair. Some lack electricity, heat and the simple pleasures of hot food and warm showers. Others, because of the lack of telephone or Internet service, feel -- and in some instances, literally are -- isolated.

In some neighborhoods, like those south of Montauk Highway in Seaford, North shores...

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