Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, May 23, 2018
difficult
to
navigate,
prompting
workarounds through muddy switchbacks
and old unpaved lanes.
Meanwhile, the storm’s damage across
Newburgh and nearby communities was
still being assessed yesterday because it’s
impact was so enormous.
In Newburgh, store owners on Liberty
Street banded together to help each other.
“Times like these make us remember
that we’re not alone,” said Phillipe
Pierre owner of the popular Ms.
Fairfax restaurant on the city’s growing
restaurant strip.
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Businesses on the growing eating and
entrainment strip supported each other
in the storm.
“Times like these,” said Pierre, “make
us remember that the journey is to make
Newburgh better.”
“Storms or no storms,” he emphasized.
“I was joking that moments like these
with the storm are just a warmup for the
June 2 Newburgh Illuminated” annual
city-wide gallery and illumination show.
“We hope it will be bright and sunny.”
Brian Wolfe
Michelle Basch from The Wherehouse is getting by with a little help from her friends Richard
Fracasse and Decora.
their landscapers because the town’s just
not going to be able to do it.
“The public works department wouldn’t
be able to do anything else all summer.”
The debris pileups from the storm’s
ravages are so bad, he said, “that some
people couldn’t move out of their houses
because of the debris.”
“But we are coming through it,” said
Zarutskie. “The highway department did
a very, very good job. It’s huge..”
This Tuesday’s weather bombshell
tested Newburghers with the power of the
savage 1950 hurricane when it lifted off
the heavy roof of the city’s iconic Dutch
Reformed Church, says Newburgh city
historian Mary McTamaney. “Imagine
the power of the storm to do that.”
The rampaging storm’s signal light
power outages left some intersections
Photos by Brian Wolf
The businesses on Liberty Street made the best of a bad situation by giving away food and creating an impromptu street party on Wednesday.