…uring a full moon has many fearing dangerous high tides. Sandy is some 520 miles (835 km) across. It is also very slow, moving north-east at just 15 mph, and could linger over as many as 12 states for 24-36 hours, bringing up to 25 cm of rain, 60 cm of snow, extreme storm surges and power cuts. States of emergency have been declared in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC and…
e going to see the biggest impacts.” National Guard and local authorities are underway for East Coast residents who had failed to heed the mandatory evacuation issued ahead of Hurricane Sandy Between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on Monday, winds increased by 10 mph to a maximum of 85 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Landfall is expected between late Monday and early Tuesday, with Google provid…
…omy back on track.” Both the Democratic incumbent and his Republican rival Mitt Romney were keen to display resolute leadership in the face of the storm, given the memory of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Mitt Romney also canceled some appearances. Former president George W. Bush was widely seen as having bungled the handling of Katrina, which devastated New Orleans. The failure of authorities i…
…by searching #MASandy on Twitter. Pennsylvania: Visit Pennsylvania’s Emergency Management Agency website here. Connecticut: Visit the Connecticut governor’s website for information or call 211 for storm shelter information in the state. Delaware: Visit the Delaware Emergency Management Agency website for more information, or residents can call the Delaware Hurricane Sandy Hotline on (8…
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…f Hurricane Sandy Utilities company ConEd had called customers to warn it will shut off power lines across Manhattan and Brooklyn, meaning millions more will be affected. The company shut off power in 200,000 homes in the area in last year’s Hurricane Irene – but this year’s storm packs a much fiercer punch. Sandy, which forecasters said could be the largest hurricane in U.S. his…
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…the New York Daily News. Her 65-year-old daughter was unable to save her. Helpless neighbors heard their screams for help but could not reach them. Also on Staten Island, John Filipowicz, 51, and his 20-year-old son John were found dead under debris in the basement of their home. Breezy Point, in New York City, where fire razed 111 homes, was described by one onlooker as resembling a war zone. Em…
…scattered outages on Thursday, with some customers complaining that they had just gotten their electricity back in the past two day or two, only to lose it again. The Long Island Power Authority said 200,000 customers were without power, with around 50,000 losing it in the new storm. Con Edison reported the storm knocked out electricity to about 60,000 customers in New York City and Westchester C…
…ft at least 64 people dead in the US, cut power from millions of homes and paralyzed transport on much of the eastern US seaboard. The hurricane made landfall on Monday night in New Jersey, where some 20,000 people remain trapped in their homes by sewage-contaminated floodwater. In New York City, the storm brought a record tidal surge that swamped the subway system and caused widespread blackouts….
n state, because of the weather, and was instead heading to Ohio. Hurricane Sandy has already killed 60 people in the Caribbean during the past week. At 11:00 EDT, the eye of Hurricane Sandy was about 250 miles (400 km) South of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, and 575 miles south of New York City, according to the National Hurricane Center. With winds of 75 mph, it was expected to bring a “…
Hurricane Sandy, which left 21 people dead as it barreled through the Caribbean, could likely metamorphose into frightening storm that could cause $1 billion in damages. Experts say the tempest – dubbed Frankenstorm – has a 90% chance of hitting the East Coast of the U.S., having the potential to wreak havoc with heavy winds, rain, flooding, and downed trees and power lines. In fact, longtime wea…
…w York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and a coastal county in North Carolina. The US Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia was reportedly sending a whole fleet of ships out to sea to avoid the storm. At 23:00 EDT, the hurricane was moving north over the Bahamas at about 7 mph, some 400 miles (630 km) south-east of Charleston in South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Hurric…
…ians from the hardest-hit areas spoke out. The October storm flooded East Coast areas and killed at least 120 people. It was the most costly natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. Politicians from New York and New Jersey, the areas hardest-hit by Sandy, had complained that it took just 10 days for Congress to approve $50 billion in aid after Katrina. More than 60 days ha…
…President Barak Obama approved a request from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York to declare a federal emergency in the state while the hurricane was still several hundred miles away. “The hurricane, 290 miles of fury dancing angrily across the Atlantic Ocean toward the coast, was actually advancing more slowly than most late-summer storms,” the National Weather Service said. New York City hurri…
…mph (120 km/h) are set to intensify as it merges with a wintry storm from the western US. A number of states key to the election could be hit by a storm that may affect up to 60 million Americans. At 20:00 EDT, the eye of the storm was about 330 miles south of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center. Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Ag…
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Monique George told AP: “In some cases, they hadn’t talked to folks in a few days. They haven’t even seen anybody because the neighbors evacuated.” In Hoboken, New Jersey, some 20,000 people are still trapped in their homes as floodwaters slowly recede. Officials warned residents not to walk in water polluted with sewage and chemicals. Hurricane Sandy arrived on the US Atla…
…o minimize damage to infrastructure. Superstorm Sandy knocked out power to at least 6.2 million people across the US East, and large sections of Manhattan were plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. New York City’s 911 dispatchers were receiving 20,000 c…
A relative of Adam Lanza has revealed that the Newtown gunman had been beaten and taunted by his fellow classmates while he was a student at Sandy Hook Elementary, and his mother had considered filing a lawsuit against the school. Speaking exclusively with the New York Daily News, Adam Lanza’s relative said that the 20-year-old who would grow up to murder his mother, Nancy, was viciously bullied…
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…8217;s bridges have re-opened. Flights started arriving at JFK and Newark Liberty airports on Wednesday morning, but the city’s LaGuardia airport remains closed. In New York City alone, at least 22 people were killed by the storm. Among those who died were: Artur Kasprzak, 28, an off-duty police officer who was moving his relatives, including a 15-month-old baby, to the attic of their home…
…ween $30 and $50 billion of damage. Sandy will likely be among the ten costliest hurricanes in U.S. history. It would still be far below the worst – Hurricane Katrina, which cost $108 billion in 2005. Insured losses were expected to reach up to $15 billion, according to NBC, before the additional toll of the damage done to uninsured buildings and infrastructure such as roads, bridges and tra…
…8221; The storm is still causing severe disruption after moving inland from the coast. It is forecast to weaken as it turns north into Canada, but to continue dumping heavy snow and rainfall. At least 22 people were killed in New York City alone. JFK and Newark Liberty – two of the New York area’s three main airports – were scheduled to open for a limited service on Wednesday, bu…
Children from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman killed 26 people last month, are to start the new term at what police say is the US’s “safest school”. Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has been closed since Adam Lanza killed 20 pupils and six staff on December 14. Chalk Hill, a disused middle school in nearby Monroe, has been renovated by an 80-strong team and r…
. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg put the figure at 30,000-40,000 people. At least 106 US deaths – 40 of them in New York City – have been blamed on Superstorm Sandy, which struck on 29 October. Residents who had so far refused to leave their homes would have no other option, Andrew Cuomo told a news conference on Sunday. He also said there would be increasing pressure on public…
…Hudson Valley, still has 650,000 customers without power – and said many of them won’t have electricity restored for another ten days. Two of New Jersey’s largest utility companies reported more than 2million customers still in the dark. What is a nor’easter? The nor’easter is a winter storm conceived by the meeting of cold arctic air with the warmer ocean air from the Gulf Stream. The stor…
All 20 children, 12 boys and 8 girls, who died in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, were aged between six and seven, according to an official list of the dead. The state’s chief medical examiner said the gunman used a rifle as his main weapon, and all the victims appeared to have been shot several times. The gunman, named in media reports as Adam Lanza, killed his m…
