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Lower Manhattan goes dark during hotels in jaco costa rica the hybrid hotels in jaco costa rica storm Sandy, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, viewed from the Brooklyn borough of New York. Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower areas of the city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 shows Hurricane Sandy off the Mid Atlantic coastline moving hotels in jaco costa rica toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
Ocean water rolls over state highway NC 12 in Buxton, N.C., on Hatteras Island at dawn on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy works its way north, battering the U.S. East Coast. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)
Utilities and state road workers monitor the situation on Virginia Dare Trail as rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy engulf the beachfront road in Kill Devil Hills, hotels in jaco costa rica N.C., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
FDNY inflatable boats travel along 14th street towards the East River on a rescue mission in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
Consolidated Edision trucks are submerged on 14th Street near the ConEd power plant, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan hotels in jaco costa rica had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 hotels in jaco costa rica customers without power as water pressed hotels in jaco costa rica into the island from three sides, hotels in jaco costa rica flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
People brace against a gust from Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Residents of the neighborhood were ordered to evacuate because of the storm surge expected from the hurricane. Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater hotels in jaco costa rica that could swamp lower areas of the city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
A car is submerged in the Dumbo section of the Brooklyn borough hotels in jaco costa rica of New York, as the East River overflows during hurricane Sandy, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower areas of the city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
NEW YORK (AP) Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding its tunnels, hotels in jaco costa rica subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street. hotels in jaco costa rica At least 16 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm, which brought the presidential campaign to a halt a week before Election Day. For New York City at least, hotels in jaco costa rica Sandy was not the dayslong onslaught many had feared, and the wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides began dying down within hours. Still, the power was out for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and an estimated 6.2 million people altogether hotels in jaco costa rica across the East. The full extent of the storm s damage across the region hotels in jaco costa rica was unclear, and unlikely hotels in jaco costa rica to be known until daybreak. Stock trading will be closed in the U.S. for a second hotels in jaco costa rica day Tuesday the first time the New York Stock Exchange will be closed for two consecutive days due to weather since 1888, when a blizzard struck the city.
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The facade of a four-story building in Manhattan s Chelsea neighborhood crumbled and collapsed, leaving the lights, couches, cabinets and desks inside visible from the street. No one was hurt. As the storm approached the Northeast over the weekend, airlines canceled more than 12,000 flights in the region. Storm damage hotels in jaco costa rica was projected at $10 billion to $20 billion, meaning it could prove to be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Sixteen deaths were reported in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, hotels in jaco costa rica North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Some of the victims were killed by falling trees. At least one death was blamed on the storm in Canada. President Barack hotels in jaco costa rica Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney canceled their campaign appearances at the very height of the race, with just over a week to go before Election Day. The president pledged the government s help and made a direct plea from the White House to those in the storm s path. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate, he said. Don t delay, don t pause, don t question the instructions that are being given, because this is a powerful storm. Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Atlantic, hotels in jaco costa rica began to hook left at midday toward the New Jersey hotels in jaco costa rica coast. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said people were stranded in Atlantic City, which sits on a barrier island. He accused the mayor of allowing them to stay there. With the hurricane roaring through, Christie warned it was no longer hotels in jaco costa rica safe for rescuers, and advised people who didn t evacuate the coast to hunker down until morning. While the hurricane s 90 mph winds registered hotels in jaco costa rica as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed astoundingly low barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT. And the New York metropolitan area apparently got the worst of it, because it was on the dangerous northeastern wall of the storm. Continued...
We are looking at the highest storm surges ever recorded in the Northeast, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for Weather Underground, a private forecasting service. The energy of the storm surge is off the charts, basically. Hours before landfall, there was graphic evidence of the storm s power. Off North Carolina, hotels in jaco costa rica a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie Mutiny on the Bounty went down in the storm, hotels in jaco costa rica and 14 crew members were rescued by helicopter from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot seas.