After Sandy, residents 'feeling anxious' about fuel supplies

Sandy's toll was still being tallied Thursday, as clean-up efforts continued in New York City and surrounding areas. Concerns about safety, fuel shortages, and property damage are on people's minds.?

By Edith Honan and Joseph Ax,?Reuters / November 1, 2012

As temperatures begin to drop, people wait in line to fill containers with gas at a Shell gasoline filling station Thursday, in Keyport, N.J. In parts of New York and New Jersey, drivers lined up Thursday for hours at gas stations that were struggling to stay supplied.

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NEW YORK/SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.

Rescuers searched flooded homes for survivors, drivers lined up for hours to get scarce gasoline and millions remained without power on Thursday as?New York?City and nearby towns struggled to recover from one of the biggest storms to hit the?United States.

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New York?subway trains crawled back to limited service after being shut down since Sunday, but the lower half of Manhattan still lacked power and surrounding areas such as?Staten Island, the?New Jersey?shore and the city of?Hoboken?remained crippled from a record storm surge and flooding.

At least 95 people died in the "superstorm" that ravaged the?Northeastern United States?on Monday. Officials said the number could rise as rescuers searched house-by-house in coastal towns.

"I worked all my life, and everything I had is right there," said?Bob Stewart, 59, standing on the Jersey Shore beach in the town of Seaside Heights and looking at the pile of debris that was once his home. "I put my life right there."

New Jersey?Governor?Chris Christie?said on Thursday that nearly a 1,000 people had been rescued by authorities.

In blackened?New York?City neighborhoods, some residents complained there was a lack of police and feared an increase in crime. Some were also concerned about traffic safety. New York police officials were not immediately available to comment.

"People feel safe during the day but as soon as the sun sets, people are extremely scared. The fact that Guardian Angels are on the streets trying to restore law just shows how out of control the situation is in lower Manhattan," said?Wolfgang Ban, owner of Edi &?The Wolf restaurant?in Manhattan's Alphabet City neighborhood.

The Guardian?Angels are a group of anti-crime volunteers.

More than 15 people in the borough of Queens were charged with looting, and a man was charged on Thursday with threatening another driver with a gun after he tried to cut in on a line of cars waiting for gas, Queens District Attorney?Richard Brown?said.?

The financial cost of the storm promised to be staggering. Disaster modeling company?Eqecat?estimated?Sandy?caused up to $20 billion in insured losses and $50 billion in economic losses, double its previous forecast.

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