Robert Bryce, right, walks with his wife, Marcia Bryce, past downed utility poles and other debris from Superstorm Sandy on Route 35 in Seaside Heights, N.J. An Associated Press analysis of outage times from other big hurricanes and tropical storms suggests that, on the whole, the utility response to Sandy, especially in hardest-hit New York and New Jersey, was typical — or even a little faster than elsewhere after other huge storms.