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ROSEMEAD, Calif., April 26, 2013 – Southern California Edison (SCE) announced today that a memorial fund has been established for the family of SCE employee Jose “Raul” Ros, who died Thursday while working on an infrastructure improvement project in Menifee.

Ros, who worked as a distribution lineman, is survived by his wife and two young daughters. He was an employee at the company for 11 years.

“We are extremely saddened by this tragedy and extend our condolences to Raul’s family,” SCE President Ron Litzinger said. “Members of the Edison family have expressed their desire to support Raul’s family, and with the establishment of the fund, we will be able to help them during this extremely difficult time.”

Edison International, SCE’s parent company, has donated $25,000 to start the memorial fund. Any employee or member of the public who is interested in making a contribution to the fund can send donations to: Jose “Raul” Ros Memorial Fund, c/o Edison International Community Investment, 2244 Walnut Grove Ave., Rosemead, Calif., 91770. For memorial fund questions, please call (866) 524-8533.

Ros died in an accident Thursday near the Newcomb substation in Menifee.

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Two other linemen were injured in this accident, but are expected to recover fully.

One of the most powerful storms of the century — a monster with the heart of a blizzard and the soul of a hurricane — invaded the New York City region and the Northeast yesterday after battering the Atlantic Seaboard and spawning deadly tornadoes and six-foot snowdrifts in the South.

The enormous storm, which developed over the Gulf of Mexico on Friday and barreled up the coast with blinding snow, driving sleet and winds that sometimes reached over 100 miles an hour, was blamed for at least 33 deaths, cut power to 2.5 million homes, forced thousands to evacuate flooded shores, closed many airports and roads and virtually shut down normal life in the eastern United States.

In the New York City region and the Northeast, heavy seas washed coastal areas of New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut that were heavily damaged by December’s northeaster.

There was no immediate assessment of damage from coastal flooding, but the storm buried inland sections in a foot or more of snow, stranded thousands of travelers and wiped out the weekend with howling winds and wintry drifts that forecasters said would continue through today. [ Page 33. ] ‘Storm of the Century’”This could be the worst storm of the century,” the National Weather Service declared in a series of blizzard warnings posted from North Carolina to Maine.

The weather service recorded winds of 40 to 80 miles an hour in the East and said one gust hit 109 miles an hour in the Dry Tortugas off the Florida Keys. The highest gusts in the New York City area were 71 miles per hour at La Guardia Airport, 63 m.p.h. at Ambrose Light outside New York Harbor and 93 m.p.h. at Peconic, L.I.

By early this morning, the service said 10 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, 8 inches at Kennedy International Airport, 11 inches each at La Guardia Airport, Newark and Philadelphia and 15 inches in Wilmington, Del. The snow changed to sleet and freezing rain across the region late in the day and washed away some of the accumulations last night, particularly on Long Island. Snow, Rain, Snow

But the rain changed back to snow early today and blizzard and coastal flood warnings remained in effect. While colder inland areas of the Northeast were expected to see heavy snow accumulations — two to three feet in some sections — areas pelted by rain were expected to end up with far more modest totals.

States of emergency were declared by Governors yesterday in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Delaware, Georgia and Tennessee to open shelters and mobilize the National Guard, the state police and other emergency services. Residents everywhere were urged to stay home.

At the White House, President Clinton spent part of the morning discussing the Federal Government’s response to the storm. He said Federal Emergency Management Agency officials were in touch with the authorities in every state affected by the storm, which knocked out power to 2 million homes in Florida, 300,000 more in Georgia and an additional 200,000 in Alabama and Tennessee. Power failures affected 40,000 homes in New Jersey and 33,000 more on Long Island.

Of the 33 deaths that were related to the storm, 14 were in Florida, where 50 tornadoes touched down and wide areas of the state were hit by flooding, snow and ice that downed power lines, damaged homes and made travel hazardous.

Five of the deaths were in New York State. In Coram, L.I., a volunteer firefighter who had been called to duty because of the storm died when an oxygen tank he was filling exploded. In Central Islip, a pedestrian was hit by a car whose driver said he could not see her in the heavy snow. In Cornwall, a mound of snow fell from a mountainside, burying a man. And in upstate New York, two men died of heart attacks while clearing snow, one in Westerlo and one in Clarksville, the Albany County Sheriff reported.

There were also three deaths each in North Carolina and Virginia, and there were two other deaths each in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Tennessee. One person died in South Carolina, and one in Connecticut. Airports Closed

The storm closed airports in New York, Washington, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Atlanta, and smaller airports in dozens of other cities. Hundreds of flights were canceled, stranding thousands of travelers. The storm also made many highways impassable and slowed or halted trains, buses and travel by car across the East. Hundreds of traffic accidents were reported.

Hundreds of public events, including Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and many athletic contests were canceled, including the Knicks, Rangers and Islanders games yesterday. Restaurants, theaters, grocery stores and other businesses closed in hundreds of communities. And thousands of homeless and heatless people were forced into shelters.

But the storm’s weekend arrival and several days of advance warnings by forecasters helped minimize the hardships. Thousands of residents of barrier islands and shore communities in New Jersey and on Long Island’s South Shore were evacuated to schools and fire stations, and millions who had stocked up on groceries, batteries and candles hunkered down to wait out the blow.

In its timing, awesome size and destructive power, the storm conveyed a kind of majesty as well as a sense of history. It arrived a week before spring on the anniversary of one of the nation’s worst storms: the Blizzard of 1888, a three-day onslaught that left 400 people dead and a host of calamities in five feet of snow. Wide Area Covered

On satellite pictures, the ferocious storm looked like a great spiral galaxy churning counterclockwise, reaching from the Appalachians into the Atlantic and from Florida to Maine, obliterating whole states and mountain ranges under its enormous mass.

Up closer, it was a thing of wild beauty. It whited out city skylines and wooded hillsides. It gave off flashes of lightning and long growls of thunder. The shape of the wind was visible in the patterns of snow swirling in the air, and on deserted beaches you could hear something primal in the moaning of the wind and the hiss and wash of the sea.

In New York City, the snow began several hours before dawn, a few flakes at first, then millions in a great steady fall that glittered in the street lamps. In the morning’s cold gray light, the snow softened the hard-edged geometry of rooftops and window ledges and draped city and suburban landscapes in what Emerson called the snow’s frolic architecture.

By afternoon, 1,272 snowplows and 350 salt spreaders were moving through the streets, while the more ambitious homeowners were out shoveling walks and driveways. But aside from a snowball fight, it was hard to be ambitious in the storm, and many people had to stay put.

Mayor David N. Dinkins urged citizens to help one another. “New Yorkers normally come together in times of crisis and assist one another and really don’t need to be prompted to do so,” he said. “But nonetheless I will request and suggest respectfully to you that you might check on your neighbors. If you have a neighbor who is a senior or disabled, check to see if they are all right.”

Kennedy International, La Guardia and Newark International airports were closed in the late morning and were expected to remain so at least through noon today, according to Mark Marchese, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airports. Many Stranded

At least 2,000 people were stranded at the city’s major airports, many of them college students heading for home or resort areas on spring break. All buses at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 42d Streets stopped operating, as did buses throughout the region. Delays and Closings

The Long Island Rail Road shut down, except for the Port Washington line, for much of the day. Limited service resumed on some lines last night, but not out of Penn Station, and delays were running up to four hours.

Metro-North cut service sharply. New Jersey commuter trains were running with delays, and service on the PATH lines between the World Trade Center and New Jersey were running 30 minutes late. Subways continued to run smoothly, but all city buses were shut down by nightfall.

At hotels throughout the city, guests who had been scheduled to leave were staying over at least another night, but hotel managers said there was still space available. At grocery stores across the city, the crowds were smaller yesterday; most people had already stocked up on provisions.

Residents in low-lying areas of the city were bracing for coastal flooding. The Red Cross set up evacuation centers at public schools in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx.

On Long Island, 300 residents of 15 communities on Fire Island and other barrier islands were evacuated, and Suffolk County authorities warned other residents of the South and North Shores to be prepared to get out at the first signs of major flooding, especially in Bayville, where several thousand people were left homeless by the December storm. New Gaps at Fire Island

On Fire Island, the storm mixed with swelling tides to cut three new breaches in Ocean Beach by midnight, allowing ocean water to meet the Great South Bay.

Winds that gusted to 85 m.p.h. and towering 20-foot waves punished the eroded shores of Westhampton Beach and other areas hit by December’s storm. Westhampton Beach officials feared a dozen homes there might be washed out to sea today. Evacuation centers were set up at many public buildings.

The Long Island Lighting Company said 92,200 customers were left without power by the storm, although all but 15,000 of them had power restored by 1 A.M. today.

In upstate New York, heavy snows were falling in the Catskill and Berkshire mountains and in the Hudson and Mohawk river valleys. With visibility at close to zero in the blowing snow, a 375-mile stretch of the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway, from the Harriman toll plaza north of New York City to Buffalo, was closed. New Jersey Evacuations

In New Jersey, authorities in Sea Bright ordered all 1,800 residents to leave by 7 P.M., and evacuations were also ordered in Bradley Beach and other parts of Monmouth and Ocean counties. People in many other coastal communities, including Highlands, Monmouth Beach, Sea Girt and Union Beach, were voluntarily leaving their homes.

Although there were no immediate reports of the kind of heavy damage wrought by last December’s storm, swelling tides late last night began to ravage shores in Sea Bright, Bradley Beach, Brigatine and Longport.The wind and snow brought down power lines and cut service to more than 40,000 homes in the state. The snow fell so quickly across New Jersey yesterday that plows had trouble keeping up and many secondary roads were impassable. Travel Difficult

N.J. Transit suspended all bus service in the afternoon and reported delays on Northeast Corridor trains because of winds blowing overhead electrical lines. Winds were gusting to 66 miles an hour in Atlantic City and 49 miles an hour in Newark. Travel around New Jersey was difficult and dangerous as inland snow accumulations reached a foot or more in some sections.

“It’s very hazardous,” said Sgt. David Baginski at the state police headquarters of the New Jersey Turnpike. “We have a lot of cars just running off the road, some minor accidents and fender-benders.”

In Connecticut, major highways remained open, but many secondary roads were impassable. Snow mounted to 10 inches in Norwalk, 7 inches in Bridgeport and 3 to 12 inches in northeastern sections. Hundreds were evacuated from low-lying areas of Stamford, Fairfield, Old Lyme, Norwalk and other shore communities. But no heavy flooding was reported, and residents were left to await today’s tidal surges.

Winds in Connecticut reached 40 m.p.h., with gusts of 60, the weather service said. Falling tree limbs that downed power lines cut electricity for 6,400 customers of Northeast Utilities, mostly in southern portions of the state. Snow in the South

In Washington, the storm closed National and Dulles International airports, shut down the Smithsonian Institution and much of the downtown commercial district and left the nation’s capital eerily quiet. At the White House, Presidential aides convened around a roaring fire, while a snowplow worked in the driveway outside.

Much of the South was hit by snow: 15 inches in Birmingham, Ala., 11 inches in Asheville, N.C., 12 inches in northern Georgia, 10 inches in South Carolina, 14 inches in Lewisburg, W. Va., and 15 inches in Roanoke, Va. Drifts of up to 6 feet were reported in northern Alabama, and ankle-deep snow was reported in Florida’s panhandle.

In Florida, the National Guard was called out to evacuate hundreds of residents of low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast, where floodwaters were up to 6 feet deep in some homes. Shelters were opened across the state for the first time since the devastation of Hurricane Andrew last year.

The Weather Service reported tornadoes in wide areas of Florida.