Sandy update: Power outage misery ends for New City community
Photo credit: Angela Gaul | Sam Yackobi and his wife survived ten days without heat, electricity or water by layering their bed with blankets in the Lake Lucille section of New City. (Nov. 5, 2012)
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Snowflakes swirled around Yaffa Yackobi's head as she looked out onto Lake Lucille in New City Wednesday afternoon, bundled in a black down coat, red knit hat, faux fur-lined boots, and layers of pants and sweatshirts -- attire that has become normal for her to wear to bed.
"This is how I go to sleep," said Yacobi, 50, on Day Nine without power or water in her home on Lucille Boulevard, an...
