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On live all about the big storm.
By JAMES BARRON
Published: October 29, 2012 978 Comments
A mammoth storm plowed into the coast of New Jersey on Monday evening,
its powerful gusts and storm surges causing once-in-a-generation
flooding in coastal communities, knocking down trees and power lines and
leaving more than 100,000 people in the rain-soaked dark across a large
swath of the Eastern Seaboard.
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The storm made landfall close to Atlantic City, N. J. at about 8 p.m.
with maximum sustained winds of about 80 miles per hour, the National
Hurricane Center said. It was headed north-northwest at 23 miles per
hour. A short time earlier, the National Hurricane Center reclassified
the storm: Hurricane Sandy
became a post-tropical cyclone, a scientific renaming that had no
bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm
surge expected to accompany its push onto land.
The enormous and merciless storm unexpectedly picked up speed as it
roared over the Atlantic Ocean on a slate-gray day and went on to
paralyze life for millions of people in more than a half-dozen states,
with extensive evacuations that turned shorefront neighborhoods into
ghost towns. Even the superintendent of the Statue of Liberty left to
ride out the storm at his mother’s house in New Jersey; he said the
statue itself was “high and dry,” but his house in the shadow of the
torch was not.
The wind-driven rain lashed sea walls and protective barriers in places
like Atlantic City, where the Boardwalk was damaged as water forced its
way inland. Foam was spitting, and the sand gave in to the waves along
the beach at Sandy Hook, N.J., at the entrance to New York Harbor. Water
was thigh-high on the streets in Sea Bright, N.J., a three-mile
sand-sliver of a town where the ocean joined the Shrewsbury River.
“It’s the worst I’ve seen,” said David Arnold, watching the storm from
his longtime home in Long Branch, N.J. “The ocean is in the road, there
are trees down everywhere. I’ve never seen it this bad.”
In Queens, shortly after 7 p.m., a tree fell on a house, killing a
30-year-old man, the police said. In Manhattan, where the National
Weather Service measured gusts of 54 miles per hour at 2 p.m., a
construction crane atop one of the tallest buildings in the city came
loose and dangled 80 stories over West 57th Street, across the street
from Carnegie Hall.
Water topped the sea wall in the financial district, sending cars floating in the rushing water.
“We could be fishing out our windows tomorrow,” said Garnett Wilcher, a
barber who lives in the Hammells Houses, a block from the ocean in the
Rockaways in Queens. Still, he said he felt safe at home. Pointing to
neighboring apartment houses in the city-run housing project, he said,
“We got these buildings for jetties.”Hurricane-force winds extended up
to 175 miles from the center of the storm; tropical-storm-force winds
spread out 485 miles from the center. Forecasters said
tropical-storm-force winds could stretch all the way north to Canada and
all the way west to the Great Lakes. Snow was expected in some states,
with blizzard warnings issued for mountainous stretches of Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia.
Businesses and schools were closed; roads, bridges and tunnels were
closed; and more than 13,000 airline flights were canceled. Even the
Erie Canal was shut down.
Subways were shut down from Boston to Washington, as were Amtrak and the
commuter rail lines. About 1,000 flights were canceled at each of the
three major airports in the New York City area. Philadelphia
International Airport had 1,200 canceled flights, according to
FlightAware, a data provider in Houston.
A replica of the H.M.S. Bounty, a tall ship built for the 1962 movie
“Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando and used in the recent
“Pirates of the Caribbean” series, sank off the North Carolina coast.
The Coast Guard said the 180-foot three-masted ship went down near the
Outer Banks after being battered by 18-foot-high seas and thrashed by
40-m.p.h. winds. The body of one crew member, Claudene Christian, 42,
was recovered. Another crew member remained missing.
Delaware banned cars and trucks from state roadways for other than “essential personnel.”
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