New York flooded - Sandy Hits coast
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Making the headline news on Monday, Superstorm Sandy carved a traumatic path of destruction through the East Coast on Monday, inundating Atlantic City and transport cars floating through the streets of lower Manhattan.
Accelerating Monday sundown as it made landfall on the New Jersey shore, the
storm promised a bequest
as one of the most destructive ever to peril the
Northeast, from North Carolina to New England.
A number of 5.2 million people were left with no electricity across the
region Monday evening—the most since the 2003 blackout. also making the headline news in New York, more than
250,000 Con Ed customers from 39th Street south were left without power. One of
the city's major hospitals was forced to evacuate patients late Monday when its
support power scheme failed.
Fire has gutted several blocks of residence in Queens as the superstorm made power cables collide and
generate sparks.
69 people died from the same storm as it passed through the Caribbean.
For the first time in over hundred years, the New York Stock Exchange will
be closed for a second day.
In New York City, approximately 2,500 people had booked into emergency storm
shelters, fewer than 4% of the total capacity, just about 24 hours after Mayor
Michael Bloomberg ordered an evacuation of 375,000 people from the city's
low-lying areas. Last year, when Mr. Bloomberg ordered the same evacuation of
low-lying areas as Tropical Storm Irene barreled up the East Coast, approximately
60% complied.
The existing struggle to keep millions of lives safe may not allow for
discussion but hopefully on news buffet will bring you more update on the superstorm.
