U.S. disaster relief in a race against cold snap


This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) photograph taken on October 31, 2012 and released November 3, shows a new inlet that was cut across the barrier island of the New Jersey coastal town Mantoloking just north of where Hurricane Sandy made landfall in Ocean County, New Jersey. The new inlet now connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Jones Tide Pond. After Sandy passed through on October 29, 2012, the bridge was covered in water, sand, and debris from houses; county officials closed it because they considered it unstable. REUTERS/Aerial photography courtesy of the NOAA Remote Sensing Division/Handout

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fuel supplies headed toward the U.S. Northeast on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity ahead of a coming cold snap that threatened to add to the misery of coastal communities devastated by superstorm Sandy.

The power restorations relit the skyline in lower Manhattan for the first time in nearly a week and allowed 80 percent of the New York City subway service to resume, but 2.5 million homes and businesses still lacked power, down from 3.5 million on Friday.

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