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Title: Evacuations ordered in New York City ahead of Hurricane Sandy
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ITV News
URL Source: http://www.itv.com/news/2012-10-28/ ... city-ahead-of-hurricane-sandy/
Published: Oct 28, 2012
Author: ITV News
Post Date: 2012-10-28 15:30:12 by Hondo68
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Comments: 6
More than 375,000 people are being evacuated from their homes in New York City ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. President Obama said the storm was "serious and big" and he urged resident on the east coast of the US to take the warnings "very seriously". Speaking at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he said he was not anticipating that the storm would affect voting in the forthcoming US presidential election. The Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has ordered mandatory evacuations for low-lying areas that are expected to be worst hit by storm-surge flooding. The mandatory evacuation zone covers City Island to Coney Island to Battery Park City. Bloomberg said during a press conference that he has ordered public schools to close on Monday. Street cleaning and parking meter rules will also be suspended on Monday. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has said that subway, bus, and railway services in New York will close from 7pm local time (11pm GMT) tonight. All city parks, playgrounds and beaches will be closed from 5pm local time (9pm GMT) will also be closed. This colour-coded map shows the evacuation zones, graded A-C with A being the most at risk. The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Sandy is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge flooding to the Mid-Atlantic coast including Long Island Sound and New York Harbour. Winds are expected to be near hurricane force when Sandy makes landfall some time on Monday. Its latest 'forecast cone' shows the likely path of the hurricane: Daybreak's New York Correspondent Lucy Watson has tweeted this photo of a New York supermarket which has almost run out of bottled water. Residents have been advised to stock up on vital supplies ahead of Sandy's arrival. The New York Stock Exchange will open on Monday morning as usual, a spokesman for the stock exchange said. Hurricane Sandy has caused havoc in the Caribbean islands of Cuba and the Bahamas.
The latest image of Hurricane Sandy Photo: National Hurricane Center 
A colour coded map of New York City showing the various evacuation zones. 
The latest forecast showing the probably path of Hurricane Sandy Credit: National Hurricane Center 
A supermarket aisle in New York Credit: ITV News/Lucy Watson
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#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Evac ordered at 3 PM. Mass Transit/Subways out to Newark shut down at 7 PM. No one has evac'ed. No one has any idea what's about to come down. "One 2011 state report suggests that a coastal storm flooding large swathes of the subway system in less than an hour could cost up to $58 billion in economic damages (and lost revenue) and — more disturbingly for the general population — leave New York public transit system out of commission for up to a month. The man who wrote that section of the report is Dr. Klaus H. Jacob, a climate scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He told Daily Intel that such a scenario may be just around the corner. "If [Sandy] arrives at the high tide, then what we will have Monday late evening will come close to the scenario that is described in that report," he said. nymag.com/daily/intel/201...ible-subway-flooding.html The First Storm of the Anthropocene. All the rest will be measured by Sandy.
#3. To: mcgowanjm (#2)
If the subways flood, NYC is out of commission for weeks!
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