Hurricane Sandy, a menacing monster of a storm that forecasters said would bring “life-threatening” flooding, churned toward some of the nation’s most densely populated areas on Sunday, prompting widespread evacuations and the shutdown of the New York City transit system.
Officials warned that the hurricane, pushing north from the Caribbean after leaving more than 60 people dead in its wake, could disrupt life in the Northeast for days.
New York went into emergency mode, ordering the evacuations of more than 370,000 people in low-lying communities from Coney Island in Brooklyn to Battery Park City in Manhattan and giving 1.1 million schoolchildren a day off on Monday. The city opened evacuation shelters at 76 public schools. /New York Times
For Evacuees, Panic, or Nonchalance By CARA BUCKLEY
For Evacuees, Panic, or Nonchalance By CARA BUCKLEY
As residents streamed out of low-lying New York apartments and grand Connecticut shore homes, some skeptics simply would not move. /New York Times
NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#SANDY
