Outside of Manhattan, New York residents are still facing a power outage as temperatures drop and the region braces for another storm. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
By Miguel Llanos and Ian Johnston, NBC News
A developing nor'easter might track farther offshore than earlier thought, but should still dump several inches of snow in New York City and the New Jersey coast starting Wednesday evening and test Sandy recovery efforts with wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour, the National Weather Service warned Tuesday. Some coastal flooding is also a possibility and one New Jersey town has already ordered evacuations.
"Cold air will wedge itself along the I-95 corridor to bring some accumulating snows from Delaware to Maine," the weather service's prediction center stated. "A few inches are possible" in cities like New York, Boston and Philadelphia, it added.
"It's going to impact many areas that were devastated by Sandy," said National Weather Service forecaster Bruce Terry. "It will not be good."?
Temperatures across the Northeast have been dipping into the low 30s, and nearly one million homes and businesses remain without power as of Tuesday morning.
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As for flooding, the worst is expected "at high tide, mainly along northern and northeast-facing beaches," weather.com reported, "but will be much lower than the magnitude of Sandy's coastal flooding."
Still, with the ground in coastal New Jersey towns still saturated with ocean water, officials feared the nor'easter could flood them again. In Belmar, Lake Como and Spring Lake, officials pumped out three lakes to allow groundwater to drain into them.?
Brick Township in New Jersey's Ocean County ordered new evacuations, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported, and other communities were weighing what to do.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided against a new round of evacuations but shelters were available for those in low-lying areas.
The incoming storm will create additional storm surge, wind, and more power outages for the already besieged East Coast. Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore reports.
In Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., Laura DiPasquale was frantically searching dozens of trash bags that volunteers had stuffed full of her household belongings and brought to the curb, trying to make sure nothing she intended to keep had gotten tossed out with debris.
"I don't know where anything is; I can't even find my checkbook," she ?told The Associated Press. "I have no idea what's in any of these bags. And now another storm is coming and I feel enormous pressure. I don't know if I can do this again. It is so overwhelming."
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Sandy roared ashore on the Jersey coast on Oct. 29 as a rare hybrid superstorm after killing 69 people in the Caribbean and then merging with a strong North Atlantic system.
It killed at least 113 in the United States and knocked out power to millions of people while swamping seaside towns and inundating New York City's streets and subway tunnels.
Residents across the Northeast pick up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy killed more than 100 people in 10 states and left a trail of destruction.
More than 217,000 people had registered for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and about $199 million in has been provided, Reuters reported.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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