LIVE Superstorm Sandy Coverage – The Weather Channel includes power outage information, closures, flooding information.
Surface, radar and Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft data indicate that Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey, around 8:00 p.m. EDT with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.
Storm surge peaked at 13.88 ft at the Battery. Now 9.81 ft & going down (Twitter report from New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s office).
New York and New Jersey Updates …
Cars floating down West Street in Manhattan
4 feet of water in East River tunnels
Lower Manhattan is dark — no electricity
Atlantic City under water — boardwalk damaged but not washed away (Tuesday morning: large parts of boardwalk reported washed away north of the casino). 115,000 residents to evacuate the New Jersey’s barrier islands
Bridges Closed
Bayville Bridge is closed
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge is closed
Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge is closed
George Washington Bridge is closed
Henry Hudson Bridge is closed
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is closed
The Tappan Zee Bridge is closed
The Throgs Neck Bridge is closed
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is closed
Whihh.tv footage reporting live from 80th street and Eastand Ave. Here is the FDR Drive Flooding due to Hurricane Sandy.
Roads Closed
FDR is closed in both directions from Battery to 155th
The Garden State Parkway is closed in both directions south of Exit 38 to Atlantic Expressway because of flooding
Cross Bay Boulevard between 163rd and 165th Avenues — closed
Mill Hill Road and East Main Street, south of the bridge, was also closed
Ban on trucks and nonemergency vehicles from most highways in Connecticut
Tunnels Closed
Hugh L. Carey Tunnel closed
(Formerly Brooklyn Battery Tunnel connects lower Manhattan to Brooklyn)
The Holland Tunnel closed
Schools
All NYC schools closed
Columbia University Closed
CUNY closed
Transit
Amtrak shut down across northeast United States
Buses shut down
LIRR shut down
Metro-North shut down
NJ Transit shut down
PATH shutdown
Subways shut down (might be shut down the whole week)
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange closed Monday and Tuesday
NASDAQ closed Monday and Tuesday
All banks are closed
No trash pickup in evacuation zones
New York City Weather Alerts and Forecast at 9:10 PM Monday, October 29, 2012
High Wind Warning, Coastal Flood Warning, Flood Watch
Monday Night
Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 60. Windy, with a southeast wind 28 to 37 mph, with gusts as high as 75 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 60. Windy, with a south wind 21 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 46. South wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday A chance of showers, mainly before 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 58. South wind 13 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday Night A slight chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 48. Southwest wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 56. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Thursday Night A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 47. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55.
Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.
Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.
From Virginia to Maine, people with cameras brave the arrival of Hurricane Sandy to capture footage of the storm’s fury.
Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights from Atlanta to San Francisco Monday. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.
See also …
Mike Bloomberg — twitter.com/MikeBloomberg
Weather Underground Data/History for October 29, 2012
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