The East Coast is starting to feel the impact of Sandy, ahead of land fall. It is thought the hurricane will make landfall in New Jersey. Ahead of the storm coastal towns are already seeing flooding, and in New York the high winds have caused the partial collapse of a crane.
The storm is continuing to intensify as it approaches land. Meteorologists are expecting a coastal surge of 20 feet. After landfall the main the storm is expected to slow down it’s forward pace. This means Sandy will take several days to clear.
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Storm has already hit Atlantic city around 6:03pm and now pounding the rest of New Jersey. NYC is bracing for the worst. A crane has collapsed at a high rise in Manhattan.
Toronto is still waiting, winds havent picked up as yet but slated to pick up overnight.
Some updates from media outlets coming in now:-
-About 7,700 flights were canceled around North American on Monday due to the storm.
-The water is “five feet high” in parts of Atlantic City, New Jersey,
-At 6:00PM EST, More than 1.5 million customers are without power due to Sandy, about double the amount just a few hours earlier.
-All buildings on New York’s 57th Street, between 6th and 7th avenues, and “all exposed buildings” on 56th Street, between those same two avenues, have been evacuated due to the partial collapse of a crane near a skyscraper under construction, the mayor’s office announced.
-All four of New York City’s bridges over the East River – the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and Queensboro bridges – will be closed at 7 p.m., the city’s mayor said.
-At 7:06PM EST, Even though it has sustained winds of 85 mph, Sandy is no longer considered a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center reported in a 7 p.m. update. The Miami-based agency said it is reclassifying the storm because “Sandy has continued to lose tropical characteristics.”
Christian wack jobs claim that these type of hurricanes hit everytime the Dalai Lama is around. He was just on the east coast, so they’ll probably have a field day with this one too – what a bunch of haters