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The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph (130 kph) sustained winds killed at least 17 people in seven states, cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio and put the presidential campaign on hold one week before Election Day.
New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart closed for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. The storm caused the worst damage travelocity canada in the 108-year history of New York s extensive subway system, according to Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
This will be one for the record books, said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.
New York City s three major airports remained closed. Overall, according travelocity canada to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 13,500 flights had been canceled for Monday and Tuesday, almost all related to the storm.
An unprecedented 13-foot (3.9-meter) surge of seawater — 3 feet (90 centimeters) above the previous record — gushed travelocity canada into lower Manhattan, inundating tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street and sent hospital patients and tourists scrambling for safety. Skyscrapers swayed and creaked in winds that partially toppled a crane 74 stories above Midtown.
In New Jersey, where the superstorm came ashore, hundreds of people were being evacuated after a levee broke early Tuesday. Bergen County executive chief of staff Jeanne Baratta told The Record newspaper as many as 1,000 people could need help. There are no reports of injuries or deaths.
The massive storm reached well into the Midwest. Chicago officials warned residents to stay away from the Lake Michigan shore as the city prepared for winds of up to 60 mph (96 kph) and waves exceeding 24 feet (7.2 meters) travelocity canada well into Wednesday.
As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, travelocity canada it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
Remnants of the now-former Category 1 hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York state by Wednesday morning. As of 5 a.m. (0900 GMT) Tuesday, the storm was centered about 90 miles (145 kilometers) travelocity canada west of Philadelphia.
Although weakening as it goes, the massive storm — which caused wind warnings from Florida to Canada — will continue to bring heavy rain and local flooding, said Daniel Brown, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Just before it made landfall at 8 pm near Atlantic City, New Jersey, forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status — but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.
While the hurricane s 90 mph (144 kph) winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed astoundingly low barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, travelocity canada said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT.
Officials blamed at least 16 deaths in the US on the converging storms — five in New York, three each in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two in Connecticut, travelocity canada and one each in Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Three of the victims were children, one just 8 years old. At least one death was blamed on the storm in Canada.
Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Atlantic Coast, began to hook left at midday Monday toward the New Jersey coast. Even before it made landfall, crashing waves had claimed an old, 50-foot (15-meter) piece of Atlantic City s world-famous Boardwalk.
A huge fire destroyed at least 50 homes in a flooded neighborhood by the Atlantic Ocean in the New York City borough of Queens. Firefighters told WABC-TV that they had to use a boat to make rescues. Two people suffered travelocity canada minor injuries, a fire department spokesman said.
New York University s Tisch Hospital was forced to evacuate 200 patients after its backup generator travelocity canada failed. NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman said patients — among them 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit who were on battery-powered respirators — had to be carried down staircases and to dozens of ambulances waiting to take them to other hospitals.
Not only was the subway shut down, but the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey was closed, as was a tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge, travelocity canada the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were closed travelocity canada due to high winds.
A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously. Thousands travelocity canada of people were ordered to leave several nearby buildings travelocity canada as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.
They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we ll come back in two or three days, she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. I hope so.
Off North Carolina, not far from an area known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie Mutiny on the Bounty sank when her diesel engine and bilge pumps failed. Coast Guard helicopters plucked 14 crew members from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot (5.4-meter) seas.
About 360,000 people in 30 Connecticut towns were urged to leave their homes under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. Christi McEldowney was among those who fled to a Fairfield shelter. She and other families brought tents for their children to play in.
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