Millions Without Power; Con Ed Cuts Service To 6,500
s Superstorm Sandy raged, nearly 2.7 million customers in the New York City metro area were without power Monday night – a number nearly equivalent to the entire population of the city of Chicago.
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s Superstorm Sandy raged, nearly 2.7 million customers in the New York City metro area were without power Monday night – a number nearly equivalent to the entire population of the city of Chicago.
Hurricane Sandy is bringing flooding and punishing winds to our area.
All subways, Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road service was suspended Sunday and it will remain that way until further notice. Bus service was also suspended.
President Barack Obama said Hurricane Sandy was a storm that will affect millions of people and urged Americans to heed warnings from state and local officials.
In the city that never sleeps -- or stops -- it would take more than a hurricane to keep the restaurant's lively dining and delivery scene from shutting down.
Wind gusts up to 89 mph were reported in Surf City on Long Beach Island, after Sandy made landfall.
The storm is forecast to linger for 36 hours, according to experts. The prolonged event means high tides will complicate the effects of the storm.
"We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people,'' said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for low-lying areas in Jersey City.
All 5,900 residents of the town of Belmar, N.J. have been ordered to evacuate immediately.
While the exact track of the Category One storm is still unclear, "it's going to make landfall in New Jersey, that's clear," Christie told reporters Sunday afternoon.
Hurricane Sandy was barreling toward the Northeast Sunday afternoon, with "unheard of" wind speeds sustained at 75 mph.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency "in every county in the state" and activated the emergency crews to monitor Sandy as it worked its way north.
With much of the Eastern Seaboard in the path of a rare behemoth storm, residents of the nation's most densely populated corridor contemplated whether to heed dire warnings of torrential rain, high winds and up to 2 feet of snow.
