Satellite image of the storm from the NOAA-NASA GOES ProjectHurricane Sandy lived up to the hype of being one of the largest and strongest hurricanes to hit the northern East Coast in recent history. Some 2 million New Yorkers are without power this morning, as are millions more in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and beyond. The Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) has said that its Philadelphia area customers should prepare to be without service for a week or longer.
Schools, offices, and public transportation systems across the East Coast are closed for another day, as the area recovers from extensive flooding as a result of Sandy’s record setting storm surge—which reached an unprecedented 13 feet in Lower Manhattan yesterday evening. Even the New York Stock Exchange announced it will be closed again today—its first 2-day closure due to weather since a blizzard in 1888.
"We knew that this was going to be a very dangerous storm, and the storm has met our expectations," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "This is a once-in-a-long-time storm."
Among the chaos, an unexpected disaster—a fire in a flooded area of Queens that drew nearly 200 firefighters by boat—destroyed some 50 houses last night. Officials managed to successfully rescue about 25 ...
