Catastrophic flooding hits Northeast as Sandy plows ashore

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Catastrophic flooding hits Northeast as Sandy plows ashore

Catastrophic flooding as Sandy plows into coast - Weather | NBC News

Superstorm Sandy surged inland late Monday, hitting the New Jersey shore and New York Harbor with incredible force, killing at least eight people, plunging almost 5 million others into darkness and crippling transportation with historic flooding across a huge swath of the East Coast.

The mammoth storm began breaking up as it hit the New Jersey shore Monday evening with maximum sustained winds of 90mph, later dropping to 75 mph, but Sandy continued to punch a destructive path across 11 states and the District of Columbia even after having been downgraded from hurricane status.

"You have to stay wherever you are," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said late Monday, telling New Yorkers they threatened their own and other people's lives by going out in the storm.

Ground Zero

Battery Tunnel

lower Manhattan

 

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Dumbo section of the Brooklyn borough of New York

Rising water, caused by Sandy, rushes into a subterranean parking garage,

The corner of 34th and 1st Street in Manhattan

Flood waters surround a car in Hoboken, N.J

14th Street and 8th Avenue

scaffolding from above a Starbucks lies on the ground in lower Manhattan

Damaged cars sit under a fallen tree from high winds in the Queens borough of New York

Southampton, N.Y.

 

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Atlantic City, N.J.

Ocean City, Md.

 

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A construction vehicle drives through flooded streets in Brooklyn

Weather channel Live

 

[Korean]

Yes, it's crazy out here, just got the power back.

I don't know how I am supposed to go to work as there is no subway, only a few buses.

 

[WS-10 Engine]

Yes, it's crazy out here, just got the power back.

damn.
Wish the storm kept YOUR power out.

To keep you off PDF

 

[Korean]

damn.
Wish the storm kept YOUR power out.

To keep you off PDF

American power grid is from the 19th century and is actually antiquated compared to the one in China believe or not.

 

[kawaraj]

best luck to those people in flood, especially those poor.

 

[Ulysses]

American power grid is from the 19th century and is actually antiquated compared to the one in China believe or not.

are you ok? if you need anything let me know

 

[kawaraj]

this is honorable scene, even sharks shopping around 5th ave....

 

[IndoUS]

Was talking with my friend, he lives in New Jersey his home got washed away and all their possessions are lost. The home was in his family for the past 4 generations, Its just sad to see all this destruction.