Storm Sandy makes landfall in eastern US

NEW JERSEY: -- A major storm bringing torrential rain, high winds, flood surges and heavy snow has made landfall on the east US coast.

Sandy, now a post-tropical cyclone, passed over the New Jersey coast at about 20:00 local time (midnight GMT), packing winds of about 80mph (129km/h).

Up to 60 million people could be affected, with hundreds of thousands ordered to evacuate homes. More than a million people have lost power.

Transport has halted in eastern cities, and thousands of flights are grounded.

The storm killed dozens of people as it passed through the Caribbean.

Sandy lost its hurricane status late on Monday as it neared the coast and collided with winter weather systems.

It made landfall close to Atlantic City.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-20133158

-- BBC 2012-10-30

here's another scoop in case you missed it:

STUNNING IMAGES OF MANHATTAN UNDER WATER

Joe Weisenthal

By multiple accounts, the flooding in lower Manhattan is stunning.

Below are several pictures, but before you view them, check out this dispatch from the NYT's Hurricane liveblog, which describes cars floating down Wall Street... it should help make the below images more believable:

Read more/Images: http://www.businessi...0#ixzz2AkXLwzOB

-- BUSINESS INSIDER 2012-10-30

Watching it live streaming http://bit.ly/SbePug Pretty sad as this is something the Americans have not had a great deal of experience with. The reports in the last hour of the subway filling with water from tidal surge will mean 5M people a day who use the subway will not be doing so for a week until it is pumped out. That will be huge interruption to NY business.

RT @Biz_TheNation: NY authorities shut down tunnels to New Jersey. No subways, trains or buses were operating. #Sandy http://shar.es/cEn35

RT @cnnbrk: Half the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, is flooded, said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. The city of 50,000 has had to evacuate two of its fire stations

RT @cnnbrk: Waters starting to recede in western Long Island Sound, National Weather Service says #Sandy http://on.cnn.com/Pg1gMd

RT @TIME: PHOTO: The slick streets of #Sandy in downtown Newark | http://instagram.com/p/RYzwXAK67g/ (by @edkashi)

RT @cnnbrk: About 200 patients being evacuated from NYU medical center, which is on backup power. http://on.cnn.com/Pg1gMd

RT @WSJ: Superstorm #Sandy is expected to affect some 20% of the U.S. population. http://on.wsj.com/SXGvD0

RT @AP: Nation's oldest nuclear power plant put on alert due to storm-driven high waters: http://apne.ws/SXOyQj #Sandy

RT @Biz_TheNation: US Presidential Challenger Mitt Romney turns campaign bus for relief supply delivery. #Sandy http://shar.es/cKLDO

RT @cnnbrk: At least 5.3 million people without power across 11 states affected by Superstorm Sandy, according to a CNN tally http://on.cnn.com/Pg1gMd

RT @TIME: PHOTO: Water pours into a parking garage on Avenue C, in New York City | http://instagr.am/p/RZDpUiq65X/

RT @piersmorgan: Every single Governor/Mayor I've spoken to on air tonight says they've never seen anything like this in their lives.

Superstorm Sandy floods NYC streets, causes massive blackouts

NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Hurricane-turned-superstorm Sandy Monday flooded streets, leaving many parts of the New York City in the darkness, affecting airports, subways, and even hospitals.

Runways at the Laguardian International Airport were submerged and some sections of the city's subways were under four feet of water, while the power outage spread from the financial hub of lower Manhanton to the East Side, local media said.

The city's utility supplier Consolidated Edison said it shut electricity supply in certain Manhanttan neighborhoods to protect underwater systems from flood damage, while the outage in the east side was caused by flooding and probable loss of a transmission feeder.

The storm killed at least one city resident, who died when a tree fell on his home in the Flushing section of Queens.

Late Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said backup power had been lost at New York University hospital and the city was working to move people out.

Full story: http://news.xinhuane...c_131939822.htm

-- XINHUA 2012-10-30

RT @BBCWorld: Apartments in a block in New York are exposed after the building's facade collapses during storm #Sandy. PICTURE http://twitpic.com/b8o3m9

IMAGES

DAILY MAIL

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225112/Superstorm-Sandy-500-trapped-devastation-East-Coast-Atlantic-City-bears-brunt.html

RT @AP: WATCH: NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg says lower Manhattan is dealing with massive power outages and huge floods: http://apne.ws/SXPc07

Incredible pictures, illustrates what's happening there at the moment.

I bet the owner of that luxury house wishes he wasn't so close to the ocean now.

RT @SkyNewsBreak: AP: At least 13 people have been killed during Superstorm Sandy in the U.S. and Canada #Sandy

RT @WSJ: Our interactive map details #Sandy-related storm impact and damage: http://on.wsj.com/SWDoeP

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http://www.dailymail...er-14-dead.html

Watching it live streaming http://bit.ly/SbePug Pretty sad as this is something the Americans have not had a great deal of experience with. The reports in the last hour of the subway filling with water from tidal surge will mean 5M people a day who use the subway will not be doing so for a week until it is pumped out. That will be huge interruption to NY business.

It will probably be pumped out on Tuesday and up and running on Wednesday. 99% of the network is fine, so it won't cause any problems to most people.

Not another crane f*** up? Good grief.

This thread is not about Global warming.

Off-topic posts and replies deleted.

It will probably be pumped out on Tuesday and up and running on Wednesday. 99% of the network is fine, so it won't cause any problems to most people.

Not likely. The tunnels are damp places and all electrical junctions/boxes must be drained and dried. All tracks have to be visually checked. All platforms must be cleaned and dried. If the storm surge included salt water, the damage will be more severe as salt water presents more of a danger than fresh water when it comes to electrical systems. There will be a serious health hazard from the infiltration of the sewer and fresh water lines in many areas. They will have to be flushed. Added to this is the risk of subsidence on several key transit routes where flyovers, underpasses and foundations will have to be checked. This has the potential to put a major hole in municpal budgets. The crane in danger of falling has shut down a large area and will cause a traffic nightmare. As the subway and bus sytems remain closed, gridlock will be the order of the day as people use their private vehicles. The shut down and damage is going to be longer and more extensive than after 9-11. Thow in the fact that NYC's 3 airports have closed and it's going to be a grim week. The major rail and road links into Manhatten are closed and or damaged. It will be tough getting fresh food into NYC. With the power grid offline for a large part of Manhatten, this isn't a question of flipping the switch back on. The city has to deal with tens of thousands of displaced people on top of its usual collrction of indigents.

It seems I'm not the only one who was wondering <deleted> the Bounty replica was doing at sea in the middle of what was at least a vicious storm. It's not as if they didn't know it was coming.

Sometimes it is safer to put to sea to ride out a storm. The USN sent many of its ships to sea ahead of the storm. There may not have been a safe harbour capable of take the ship and this may have been the alternative.

Watching it live streaming http://bit.ly/SbePug Pretty sad as this is something the Americans have not had a great deal of experience with. The reports in the last hour of the subway filling with water from tidal surge will mean 5M people a day who use the subway will not be doing so for a week until it is pumped out. That will be huge interruption to NY business.

Being a Floridian I can assure you people in the Southern US have had a great deal of experience with large storms. The NE US doesn't have much experience, but they don't get much upset when it occurs here, so I guess we'll not get too upset when it occurs there. Of course it'll clean up some areas that might need a good rinsing, as long as no one get hurt or injured that might be a good thing.

Thailand should offer to send flood expert Plodprasop to the US to help. Preferably permanently.