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Local updates: Sandy's impact on LI, Nov. 1

Thursday November 1, 2012 9:15 PM By Newsday staff

A tree fell on a house on Harvard

Photo credit: Newsday/ Audrey C. Tiernan

UPDATED 9:11 P.M.

In Wantagh, a number of firsts

Two things happened this week for the first time in Arline Vitale’s 51 years of living on Long Island: water flooded her home and she’s had to rely on someone else’s cooking.

The 76-year-old Wantagh grandmother threw out hundreds of dollars of food from her freezer and hasn’t been able to operate her electric stove for the last four...

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