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Super Storm "Sandy"

 

US President Barack Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York state after storm Sandy smashed into the US East Coast, causing flooding and cutting power to millions.

A record 4m (13ft) tidal surge sent seawater cascading into large parts of New York City's subway system.



Across the city, a power sub-station exploded, a hospital was evacuated and fire destroyed 50 homes
At least eight million homes and businesses are without power, says the US Department of Energy. In all, about 50 million people could be affected by the storm, with up to a million ordered to evacuate their homes.

 

At least 8 million electric customers were without power, including many hospitals and nursing homes....The damage toll from the storm could come to $20 billion.

Fire destroyed about 50 homes in the New York City borough of Queens

More than 200 patients were evacuated from New York University's Tisch Hospital after power went out and a backup generator failed

A large tanker ship was washed on to a street in Staten Island, New York

America's oldest nuclear power plant, Oyster Creek in New Jersey, was put on alert due to rising water

The New York Stock Exchange stayed shut on Tuesday - the first time it has closed for two consecutive days owing to weather since 1888

A crew member from a replica of HMS Bounty died and the captain is missing after the ship sank in mountainous seas off North Carolina on Monday

A construction crane in New York was bent double next to a skyscraper, while the facade of a four-storey building collapsed

 

Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic tropical system on record, is a late-season tropical cyclone that has affected Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the eastern seaboard of the United States, reaching to the area south of the Great Lakes Region of the United States, and Eastern Canada. The 18th tropical cyclone, 18th named storm, and 10th hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy developed from an elongated tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22. It became a tropical depression, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to a tropical storm six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually strengthened

On October 24, Sandy was upgraded to a hurricane, shortly before making landfall in Jamaica. Upon moving farther north, Sandy re-entered water and made its second landfall in Cuba during the early morning of October 25 as a Category 2 hurricane. During the late evening of October 25, Sandy weakened to Category 1 strength; in the early hours of October 26, it headed north through the Bahamas. Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm in the early morning hours of October 27, then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane later that morning

Just before 8 a.m. on October 29, Sandy turned to the north-northwest and started to make its expected approach towards the U.S. coast, still maintaining Category 1 strength. Although the National Hurricane Center has not officially confirmed the location, at 5:46 PM local time, Accuweather announced it had come ashore in between Avalon and Sea Isle City in Cape May County, New Jersey. NOAA announced officially that the storm had come ashore at approximately 8:00 p.m. EDT 5 miles southwest of Atlantic City, New Jersey. On October 29, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. EDT, Sandy was declared a post-tropical cyclone

Sandy's impact on the United States stretched from North Carolina to New England with tropical storm force winds stretching far inland and significant mountain snows in West Virginia. The cyclone brought a record-breaking storm surge to New York City on the evening of October 29, with numerous streets and tunnels flooded in Lower Manhattan and other areas of the city

The death toll from Sandy, a hurricane turned superstorm, in the United States and Canada has risen to at least 50, US media reported.
The devastation brought the busy, bustling Northeast to a virtual standstill, with schools, businesses, and airlines closed, mass transit systems shut down, more than 15,000 flights cancelled and many roads impassable.

At least 8 million electric customers were without power, including many hospitals and nursing homes....The damage toll from the storm could come to $20 billion.