Sandy has now made landfall on the coast of New Jersey.
CNN
Breaking News@cnnbrk
#Sandy
made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey, the
NationalHurricane Center said. on.cnn.com/Pg1gMd
30
Oct 12
20:11
EDT
Updated
at 20:12 EDT
WCBS
reporter Alex Silverman following the flooding in Lower Manhattan,
where many streets are under water now, making it difficult for the
emergency services to respond to calls, particularly in the Wall
Street and the appropriately named Water Street areas. The New York
Stock Exchange remains closed tomorrow.
Alex
Silverman@AlexSilverman
Battery
place is a river. Water has risen six inches in 10 mins
pic.twitter.com/lCEaG1dE
The
NOAA has now designated Sandy a
post-tropical storm. But that doesn't necessarily mean its
effects will be any less damaging: Weather
Underground is reporting a rising storm tide of over 12ft at the
Battery in Lower Manhattan, the most vulnerable part of the city. If
the tide gets too high, the city subway is at significant risk of
flooding.
Also .....
Apparently sharks are now deep in New Jersey
Power outage and Flooding in Manhattan due to #Sandy
00.32
(20.32) A surreal moment: the storm is now flooding the Fire
Department's headquarters in New York ....
five deaths have been reported
00.40
(20.40) Dawn Zimmer, the Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, is urging
residents in ground floor apartments to go knock on their upstairs
neighbours' doors and ask to stay for the night "because the
Hudson river is flowing into both sides of the city".
The water is six feet deep outside of the@nydailynews office at 4 New York Plaza http://bit.ly/SkKyvM #Sandy
The water is six feet deep outside of the
A
building at 92 8th Ave. lost its facade as Hurricane Sandy approached
landfall on the East Coast on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in New York, N.Y.
No residents were trapped after the collapse. (James Keivom/New
York Daily News
21:19
EDT
Over
one million people are now without power in New Jersey, according to
the
Wall Street Journal.
The
newspaper reports that 1,136,657 customers are without electricity.
Around 250,000 people are without power in Connecticut.
Sandy
struck New Jersey with winds of 80 mph, according to CBS. The storm
had earlier washed away parts of the Atlantic City boardwalk in the
state.
02.05 Three feet of water have seeped onto the historic trading floor
at the New York Stock Exchange, according to CNN.
01.46 There have been unconfirmed reports of fires in some New York
subways as well as this unbelievable but unverified picture of water
bursting through a door at a subway station in Newark.
22:06
Subways could be out for days All under-water tubes linking Manhattan and Brooklyn are flooded - raising the possibility that subway service could be out at least in part for days. The 4, 5, 2, 3, A , C, F and R trains use the five tunnels under the East River. There also is flooding on the No. 1 line in lower Manhattan.
...Water
is entering the subway tunnels in lower Manhattan, a spokesman for
the MTA has told the Guardian.
"There
is water is entering in lower Manhattan right now," the
spokesman said just now. He said the MTA "don't have any
specifics" as to which tunnels and where water is entering at
this time.
Rumours
have been circulated that the MTA has announced the subway will be
closed until Friday. This is false, the spokesman said.
"Not
that is absolutely not true," he said. "We never gave a
date. We have to do an assessment damage, we have to repair the
damage and then service will be restored. But there has never been a
date associated with that."
He
said MTA workers should probably be able to begin assessing the
damage on Tuesday.
"Once
the winds have died down and it's ok to go out and do a complete
assessment and inspection they'll determine on a case by case basis
when service should be resumed."
Battery
tunnel is also flooded, a MTA spokeswoman said. The MTA has said
rumours of fires in subway tunnels are false.
Explosion at ConEdison plant
Many
people have reported witnessing bright lights in the sky over
Manhattan due to an explosion at the ConEdison plant at 14th Street
on the east side of the city. It appears this video, unconfirmed but
widely shared, captured that moment. It's dramatic.
For video GO HERE
22.46
In
a statement tonight New York City's mayor Mike Bloomberg said
patients are having to be evacuated from NYU hospital after its back
up generator failed. He said the failure came despite assurances it
had been tested. Patients are now being moved out of the hospital.
Kathryn
Schulz from New York Magazine has more information:
Verified,
& worst news I've heard so far: NYU hospital generator failed.
Personnel manually evacuating PICU & NICU down 9 flights of
stairs.
— Kathryn
Schulz (@kathrynschulz) October 30, 2012
Con
Edison workers trapped in New York power plant by Sandy: Reuters
witness
Reuters
–
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - Nineteen workers were trapped inside a Consolidated
Edison power station on the east side of Manhattan Monday night by
rising floodwaters that accompanied the surge from powerful storm
Sandy, according to a Reuters witness.
A
rescue worker, who declined to be named, said the station had
suffered an explosion inside.
This
report has since been denied
by the company
America's
oldest nuclear power plant is on alert after waters reached high
levels. Oyster Creek in Lacey Township, New Jersey, was already
offline for maintenance but declared "an unusual event"
after storm waters increased.
Two
hours later, at 9pm ET, an "alert" was issued, the
second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system. Officials say the
water is likely to recede in a couple of hours.
86th
Street station flooding.
00.15
A
hospital in New York is being evacuated after a backup generator
failed when power went out earlier this evening. Dozens of ambulances
have been ferrying around 200 patients from NYU Langone Hospital to
other medical centres, Fox reporter Brian Quinn said, with city
workers reportedly helping with the evacuation effort.
Another
dramatic image: floodwaters gushing into Hoboken Path station in New
Jersey via an elevator shaft. The image was caught on the Port
Authority's CCTV system. Subway lover Bill McKibben has published
this lament.
Floodwaters
from hurricane Sandy rush down an elevator shaft into Hoboken PATH
station in New Jersey. Photograph: Reuters/Port Authority
Trans-Hudson
To
say that disruption to public transport should be expected would seem
a colossal understatement.
01.13
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Who
ever thought hurricanes could mean snow?
AccuWeather.com@breakingweather
#Sandy
Update: 17 inches of snow has fallen so far in Davis, WV. Much more
to come
ALERT:
This headline has appeared - more as information comes to hand
Bedford Co, PA. EVAC due to Nuclear Warning!!
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