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		<title>Cecil County Hunkers Down as Sandy Looms; Governor says &#8220;People Will Die&#8221; in Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(UPDATE 11:55 a.m. Monday)&#8211; Cecil County residents hunkered down Monday as the massive, hybrid storm known as Sandy began its assault on Maryland, and Gov. Martin O’Malley bluntly warned, “People will die in this storm.” Cecil County government shut down all but emergency services operations and the county landfills were closed to customers, according to the county website. County public schools and administrative offices were closed Monday and a shutdown for Tuesday was announced. A “code red” robocall from the county’s Department of Emergency Services on Sunday advised that the storm would be “a long lasting event” and urged citizens to evacuate low-lying areas. The county established an emergency shelter at Rising Sun High School as of 6 p.m. Sunday, but emergency officials declared it should only be used as “a last resort for people to relocate.” And Gov. Malley cancelled early voting for the 2012 general election on Monday, after two days of higher than usual early voting turnout on Saturday and Sunday. (Voting was scheduled to run through Thursday, 11/1/12, but in an executive order, the governor said that there could be a “potential extension” of the timeframe beyond Thursday.) The state elections board reported 1,333 votes were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Storm Stories: Road, Emergency Crews Weather the Crisis; Sleepless in Cecilton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s heroes of the storm told the County Commissioners Tuesday of their long hours to clear roads, assist power companies and help individual citizens trapped by Friday night’s sudden, severe thunderstorm and winds that left downed trees, power outages and damage through a wide swathe of southern Cecil County. And County Health Officer Stephanie Garrity defended the county’s policy of not opening up designated “cooling stations” to residents sweltering in the weekend heat without power and air conditioning. She cited a John Hopkins University study that found heat-related deaths in the state were usually caused by complicating factors, such as age, alcohol use and other health conditions such as heart disease. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of Emergency Services, related that the county had no advance warnings of the storm threat from the National Weather Service but by late Friday evening state emergency officials sounded an alarm, followed by increasingly ominous watches and warnings. He said of particular concern was the presence of about 150 boats in the basin area at Chesapeake City, who had arrived in advance of the Saturday Canal Fest event. Emergency officials “went boat to boat,” beginning at about 11 p.m., to warn of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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