Hurricane
Sandy taught to be the latest powerful storm hitting the state and with Saturday’s
forecasts indicating the devastating potential of this storm which is likely to
sweep along the Eastern Seaboard as early as Sunday evening, tens of millions
of people began evacuation as state and local authorities increased the urgency
of their warnings.
New York along with several other states
have declared states of emergency and urged residents
to take precautions. In Philadelphia, the mayor called for voluntary
evacuations of low-lying areas as did New Jersey’s governor, Chris Christie.
From
Plymouth, Me., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., people boarded up windows, stocked up on
water, batteries and food and prepared to hunker down. Airlines have cancelled
their flight plan due to this ongoing nature unrest.
In
New York City, the mayor told residents to stay out of city parks starting on
Sunday, and to stock up on basic supplies. All construction activities were
also suspended.
“This
is a large, unpredictable storm, so be prepared for possible outages,” The New
York mayor said at a news conference Friday afternoon.
The
latest computer models tracking the storm showed it likely to make landfall
somewhere between Delmar, Del., and Long Island. But as Hurricane Sandy churned
in the Atlantic, it began to spread out, casting tropical-force winds some 450
miles from the center of the storm, which was just north of the Bahamas as of
10 a.m, residence are advised to take precautions and stay in door.
“This
predictions are suspect to change”, said the weather forecasters. Hurricane
Sandy weakened overnight Friday into a tropical storm and then strengthened
again to hurricane level, with sustained winds of over 75 miles per hour
recorded by ocean buoys more than 100 miles from the storm’s center.
Experts
said that even if the Hurricane decreased in strength, the storm would likely
still be powerful because of the unusual convergence of several weather
systems.
The
full moon on Monday could also mean flooding, with tides with be at their peak.
In
all, the hybrid storm is estimated to affect as many as 50 million people.
In
many of the states in the storm’s path, there are still fresh memories of storm
this summer which was accompanied with gale-force winds, tornadoes and
lightning that left millions stranded without power for days.
Hurricane
Irene in 2011 cost $15 billion in damage across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast,
according to federal officials and these is expected to cause more damage.
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