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Staten Island Preps for Another Storm

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    FBN's Liz MacDonald on how businesses are preparing for the Nor'easter that is going to affect New York.

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And let's head down our -- the dollar and Staten Island New York one of the areas.

Hit hardest by hurricane sandy and now prepping for a storm with no name list.

Yeah that's right -- -- the heart of the business district of Staten Island.

Let's and a mile away sits the ocean and what happened here was a six foot wall of ocean.

Waves came up the block that we're on -- want the businesses want the houses there's evacuation -- not right now as steady stream of traffic.

We're seeing here let me set the scene for you.

The traffic lights aren't intermittently going out so they also have fire trucks coming into there's a concern about gas leaks in some of their houses they don't not one another breezy point situation.

Where they lose her house but -- taking him to the businesses that are trying to do.

That refilled of their businesses that they called for decades guys it's all about the reclamation of their most.

Not prize possession the family business that they've been -- their bellies for.

Goods does not there's been around for forty got four decades rather critical incident data coming right now to mottled god knows I'm -- -- -- -- -- a volatile.

And basically what you gonna see here -- I walked up to the building begin a -- watermark that -- show -- how high the water.

And then building and -- -- -- see -- hear what would also -- -- as the water came up through the plumbing.

Here.

And basically damage the entire building we're gonna talk to -- months -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- He's got your -- mental certainly.

We get -- pick -- so how are you holding up given the nor'easter bearing down.

Hope it'll make matters worse we have a hole in the roof residents try to think we'll probably get canned him he's taken -- about twelve -- daddy were ready.

He -- -- to this thoughts on the walls.

Tell -- a lot of product lot of work.

How might have you been here.

-- since the early eighties and have you been here since Tuesday right -- -- again the water lines normal war.

Our idea hasn't seen his wife sent -- -- when children.

-- one of my son's in out just came to help him.

-- Aren't getting -- good to be dictating thank you -- time.

-- does not going to be giving you live updates throughout the day you know there is a coastal flood warning in effect that FEMA has evacuated in the neighborhood behind us has evacuated as well -- you.

My thanks very much less the --