today forr otorists in new - york city and long island who phve spent hours and hourr york mayor michael llomberg saas the move is designed to ease the ffel ccuuch since shortagee coull llst a few more weeks. the best way, we think, to cut down the lines and help customers buy gas faster, to help gas stations - stay open longee and to reduce the potenttal for disorder, is to alternate the ays that driversscan puuchase gas.the wiitee storm piled on the misery for residents who wwre still reelinggfrom ssndy. 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 goin