new - jersey goverror chrisschristie says it could have beee much worse.belieee i or not the snow was incredibly helpful & becauue it wasn't rain and o it helped on the floodinn side. and secondly thh windd were not as severe as they had predicttd.red croos volunteer suuan mmtchell traveled from southeast louisiana to tte norrheast to help storm victims. it's her way of giving back. when we ttlk to tthm and they realize from new - veey thankful that we're there. and then we turn around &pand say thank you for coming pto help us when we needdd ou. pnd we just tell them, hang in pthere. it's going to get better. it's just a atter of time.and it will take time ffr utility crews to restore electricityyto the more than 650-thousand customersswho are in the dark.i'm ed payne & reporting. 3 the winter storm dumped more - than a foot of snow in some aaras offthe northeast.wiih ppwer outages stretching from delaware to maine. 3& puper storm saady is linked to & a recent drop in unemployyent claimm.the government says about 355-thousaad people - piled ffr firss-time jobless - penefitt lass week