…because the navigation charts on board the ship showed a water depth of 1,400m in that area – very deep,” Dr. Maria Seton, from the University of Sydney, told the AFP news agency after the 25-day voyage. “It’s on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no island. We’re really puzzled. It’s quite bizarre. “How did it find its way onto…
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…ion problems, but those were quickly fixed. Hamilton County Election Administrator Kathy Richardson says cards used to clear tallies from machines before voting begins were improperly programmed. Some 500 machines in about 150 polling places had to be reset once those cards were reprogrammed. Because of the turbulent counting process and new regulations about proper ballot submissions, there is a…
hter, Holly, who will marry shipbroker Freddie Andrews on the island at the end of this year, and his 90-year-old mother, Eve, were also among guests forced to flee the Great House. The Virgin’s boss, 61, his wife, Joan, and son, Sam, were on the island but were staying in another house about 100 meters away from Great House. Fire broke out last night at Richard Branson's Caribbean Great Hous…
…Superstorm Sandy after it uprooted their massive oak tree, sending it crashing into a neighbors’ garden Matthew Weinschreider uploaded the video to YouTube, where it has already been viewed more than 60,000 times since Monday. While falling trees have claimed scores of lives since Sandy came ashore, no one was injured in the incident in Huntington. Hurricane Sandy landed in New York on Monday eve…
…h a daunting 393 steps to the crown, where there were previously 354 slightly steeper steps. The famous statue is 151 ft from base to torch. It sits atop the 89 ft tall stone pedestal, which sits on a 65 ft tall foundation in the shape of a star. Meanwhile the bathrooms have been upgraded for the first time since the 1980s. Statue of Liberty has been closed indefinitely after Superstorm Sandy flo…
…ng it in the new storm. Con Edison reported 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 Centra…
…on, Boston and Philadelphia. At 02:00 EDT, the storm was turning north, its eye swirling about 425 miles (760 km) south-east of New York City, according to the National Hurricane Center. With winds of 75 mph, Hurricane Sandy, dubbed “Frankenstorm”or “Superstorm”, is expected to bring a “life-threatening” surge flood to the mid-Atlantic coast, including Long Island Sound and…
Hurricane Sandy could merge with a winter storm to create what they have dubbed “Frankenstorm” as it churns towards the US, forecasters warn. Sandy has weakened to a category one hurricane, but is still packing maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h). Hurricane Sandy reportedly caused up to 40 deaths as it tore through the Caribbean on Thursday and Friday. The storm is projected…
ess than expected. The Frankenstorm could also deposit snowfall as far south as North Carolina, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Metropolis blog. Government meteorologists are giving the storm a 70% chance of hitting land next week, ruining Halloween celebrations for millions of children who have dressed up for trick or treating door knocks. “The potential is there,” said National Weather Se…
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…t I was going to die, I passed out several times. In the meantime, one of them kicked me on and on and told me to take everything out of my pockets. I gave them the bank card, I didn’t want to die for 60,000 forint (220 Euro). I couldn’t even feel pain because all my strength was focused on keeping the rope away from my neck. Then they tied my hands and legs and started digging and then buried me…
across the region. The National Guard is to deliver a million meals and bottled water to New Yorkers affected by the storm. The number of dead in the US has exceeded the toll from the Caribbean, where 69 people were killed by Sandy. The storm could cost the US $50 billion, according to forecasting firm Eqecat, doubling the previous estimate. In New York, limited subway services returned on Thursda…
…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…
, debris, the roads, water, snow. It’s a little bit of everything,” said Brian Wolff, senior vice president of the Edison Electric Institute, a group that lobbies for utilities. Initially, about 60 million people were without power in 8.2 million homes and businesses. By Wednesday night, that number had fallen to roughly 44 million people in 6 million households and businesses. Even as power…
a mandatory one for New York City which saw Mayor Michael Bloomberg advise 375,000 people to leave low-lying areas. Buses were no longer running and flights in and out of the city cancelled. More than 7,000 flights have been cancelled so far – already leaving a backlog of tens of thousands. The New York subway closed at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday for only the second time in history, meaning that al…
…its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it.” Plans to press ahead with the race had prompted uproar from politicians in cyclone-ravaged parts of the city. More than 90 US deaths, over 40 of them in New York, have been blamed on Sandy. Across the US East Coast, some 3.5 million homes and businesses – 1.2 million in New York state alone – still have no electricity, four…
00 in the East Village and the Lower East Side at around 5:45 p.m., the company then boasted at about 6:45 p.m.: “#ConEdison just restored power to 25,000 customers in the #Chelsea network.” At around 7:00 p.m., Con Edison tweeted that another 8,000 customers in the #City Hall network were back on the grid – from Broadway to the East River and Canal Street to Frankfort. This announcement qui…
in the Bahamian capital of Nassau to catch flights off the island before the airport’s expected afternoon closure. The first ferry to leave Ocracoke Island in North Carolina arrived just before 5:30 a.m. in nearby Hatteras with around a dozen cars on board. The 16-mile-long barrier island is accessible only by boats that can carry no more than 50 cars at a time. Ocracoke Island is home to a…
11; doing their best to uncover the secrets of the mysterious stones, and the people who built them. Project director Jo Anne Van Tilburg said: “Our EISP excavations recently exposed the torsos of two 7 m tall statues. “Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of visitors to the island have been astonished to see that, indeed, Easter Island statues have bodies! “More important, however, we discovered a great…
…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 have passed since Sandy made landfall on the US eastern seaboard. Lawmakers remained angered by the delay even during debate on Friday. “How dare you come to this floor and make people…
New York City looks like the set of a disaster movie this morning after a night of being battered by Superstorm Sandy. It hit the mainland at 6:30 p.m. local time last night having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day. The US city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway, and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of th…
…orth Carolina to evacuate their homes and seek shelter. The National Hurricane Center said wind speeds inside Sandy dropped as the storm became a post-tropical cyclone, but remained hurricane-force at 75 miles per hour (120 km/h) after it made landfall near casino resort Atlantic City. President Barack Obama declared that a “major disaster” exists in New York state following Superstor…
act impact or path of the storm, and cautioned that it could hit other parts of the coast – potentially even New York. Consolidated Edison, which handles New York City and the 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…
or example, won’t necessarily experience a rebound later. And money spent to repair a home may lead to less spending elsewhere. The storm cut power to more than eight million homes and shut down 70% of East Coast oil refineries. It inflicted worse-than-expected damage in the New York metro area – which produces about 10% of economic output in the U.S. President Barack Obama, who will v…
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