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…
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…ity’s subway, bus and train services were suspended from 19:00 on Sunday, and schools will be shut on Monday. With predicted storm surges of up to 11 ft, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered 375,000 people in the city’s vulnerable low-lying areas to leave their homes. Evacuation shelters have been set up at 76 public schools. “If you don’t evacuate you’re not just…
…rted the storm knocked out electricity to about 60,000 customers in New York City and Westchester County. On Thursday, these customers included 21,000 in Queens, 7,000 in Brooklyn, 4,000 in the Bronx, 3,900 in Staten Island and 140 in Manhattan. Public Service Electric & Gas reported 160,000 outages, including 40,000 caused by the new storm. Jersey Central Power & Light has about 238,000 c…
erged. In Boone, North Carolina, snow began falling at 8:00 a.m.; the Appalachian mountain town is expected to suffer a miserable few days with snow, rain and temperatures struggling to get out of the 30s. Up to eight inches of snow is expected but, in places of higher elevation, there may be as many as 12. In Oak Orchard, Delaware, rescue efforts by the National Guard and local authorities were a…
…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…
…come to this floor and make people think everything is okay?” New Jersey Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell demanded of Republicans skeptical of the bill. The House passed the measure by a 354 to 67 vote, while the US Senate approved it on Friday afternoon by unanimous consent. The US Congress has passed an emergency aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy, days after an outcry ov…
…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…
…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…
of fuel. At many petrol stations there have been long lines of cars and of people carrying jerry cans. One owner of a fuel station in New Jersey told the New York Times he had been pumping petrol for 36 hours and had to call the police and turn off the pumps temporarily as tempers among customers rose. There were reports of sharp price increases by some suppliers. Fuel shortages and difficulties…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…no presidential election ever being postponed, some are pointing to past precedents where voting has been delayed. New York City was holding its mayoral primary when terrorists struck on September 11, 2001, and the city rescheduled the election. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Louisiana’s governor postponed municipal elections in New Orleans after elections officials said polling places wou…
…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…
The death toll from Hurricane Sandy keeps rising as swathes of the US East Coast battle to recover, three days after being smashed by the massive storm. More than 80 people are now known to have died, 37 in New York City alone, and others remain missing. About 4.6 million people are still without power, and there are fuel shortages across the region. The National Guard is to deliver a million mea…
New York City’s public transport system will be suspended tonight ahead of the arrival on Monday of Hurricane Sandy. Governor Andrew Cuomo said the subway, bus and train services would shut down from 19:00 on Sunday. As many as 375,000 people have been ordered to evacuate low-lying areas, and schools will be shut. Sandy’s winds are set to intensify as it merges with a wintry storm fro…
…the state’s barrier islands, and local officials ordered many more in their towns. It was not known how many heeded the warning. She said more than 2,200 people were in shelters statewide. About 35,000 homes and businesses across the state were without power by midday Monday as officials braced for a storm surge that was expected to cause record-breaking flooding. Related search articles:…
…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….
The New York Stock Exchange reopens for regular trading today (Wednesday, October 31st) after being shut down for two days because of Hurricane Sandy. The exchange said in a statement Tuesday that its building and trading floor are fully operational and that normal trading will resume at the usual starting time of 9:30 a.m. There had been erroneous reports Monday that the exchange floor had flood…
…ay – a total closure of six to seven days. But a group of Columbia University researchers analyzing the effects of a smaller hurricane or tropical storm suggest that it would shut down the subways for 21 days. The predictions came in a report authored by Klaus Jacob, a geophysicist who specializes in disaster management, that examined the effects on the city’s transportation infrastructure of a 10…
…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 Agency, said: “This is not a coastal t…
Tens of thousands of people whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Sandy could soon need housing as cold weather closes in, New York’s political leaders have warned. Homes without heat would become uninhabitable as temperatures fell, state Governor Andrew Cuomo said. 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…
…r crashes. The wind also snapped a crane in Manhattan, leaving it to dangle precariously above the Midtown West skyline, with officials too wary of the high winds to attempt to bring it down. At least 26 of the 61 reported fatalities from the storm occurred in New York, with five on Long Island. These included a motorcyclist who collided with a van after traffic lights stopped working, a car crash…
Pakistan school bus fire kills 16 children and their teacher near GujratAt least 16 children and their teacher have been killed when their school bus caught fire near Gujrat in eastern Pakistan, police say. At least seven more children were…
Kim Jong-un sends Choe Ryong-hae as special envoy to BeijingKim Jong-un has sent Choe Ryong-hae as special envoy to Beijing, North Korean state media has announced, amid cooling relations between the two neighbors. Choe Ryong-hae, a…
North Korea releases Chinese fishing crew The Chinese fishing crew seized by North Koreans two weeks ago has been freed along with their boat, reports say. The 16-man crew was taken captive by unidentified North…
China urges North Korea to release Yu Xuejun's fishing boat captured for $100,000 ransomChina has called on North Korea to secure the release of a fishing boat and its crew seized earlier this month. Owner Yu Xuejun said the vessel had been in Chinese waters…
Zahra Shahid Hussain funeral: Murdered PTI's vice-president buried in KarachiThe funeral of the murdered vice-president of Pakistan's PTI party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, has been held at a mosque in the country’s capital, Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain…
Imran Khan blames MQM's Altaf Hussain for Zahra Shahid Hussain's killing in KarachiFormer cricketer Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's PTI party, has blamed one of his political rivals for the killing of PTI vice-president Zahra Shahid Hussain. Zahra…
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