Tuesday 30 October 2012

Update on Hurricane Sandy


Sandy has now made landfall on the coast of New Jersey.

CNN Breaking News@cnnbrk

#Sandy made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey, the NationalHurricane Center said. on.cnn.com/Pg1gMd

30 Oct 12
20:11 EDT
Updated at 20:12 EDT



WCBS reporter Alex Silverman following the flooding in Lower Manhattan, where many streets are under water now, making it difficult for the emergency services to respond to calls, particularly in the Wall Street and the appropriately named Water Street areas. The New York Stock Exchange remains closed tomorrow.

Alex Silverman@AlexSilverman
Battery place is a river. Water has risen six inches in 10 mins pic.twitter.com/lCEaG1dE


The NOAA has now designated Sandy a post-tropical storm. But that doesn't necessarily mean its effects will be any less damaging: Weather Underground is reporting a rising storm tide of over 12ft at the Battery in Lower Manhattan, the most vulnerable part of the city. If the tide gets too high, the city subway is at significant risk of flooding.


Also .....

Apparently sharks are now deep in New Jersey




Power outage and Flooding in Manhattan due to #Sandy





00.32 (20.32) A surreal moment: the storm is now flooding the Fire Department's headquarters in New York ....

five deaths have been reported

00.40 (20.40) Dawn Zimmer, the Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, is urging residents in ground floor apartments to go knock on their upstairs neighbours' doors and ask to stay for the night "because the Hudson river is flowing into both sides of the city". 


The water is six feet deep outside of the office at 4 New York Plaza




A building at 92 8th Ave. lost its facade as Hurricane Sandy approached landfall on the East Coast on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in New York, N.Y. No residents were trapped after the collapse. (James Keivom/New York Daily News






21:19 EDT

Over one million people are now without power in New Jersey, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper reports that 1,136,657 customers are without electricity. Around 250,000 people are without power in Connecticut.

Sandy struck New Jersey with winds of 80 mph, according to CBS. The storm had earlier washed away parts of the Atlantic City boardwalk in the state.


02.05 Three feet of water have seeped onto the historic trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange, according to CNN.

01.46 There have been unconfirmed reports of fires in some New York subways as well as this unbelievable but unverified picture of water bursting through a door at a subway station in Newark.




22:06 
Subways could be out for days All under-water tubes linking Manhattan and Brooklyn are flooded - raising the possibility that subway service could be out at least in part for days. The 4, 5, 2, 3, A , C, F and R trains use the five tunnels under the East River. There also is flooding on the No. 1 line in lower Manhattan.





21:39
...Water is entering the subway tunnels in lower Manhattan, a spokesman for the MTA has told the Guardian.

"There is water is entering in lower Manhattan right now," the spokesman said just now. He said the MTA "don't have any specifics" as to which tunnels and where water is entering at this time.

Rumours have been circulated that the MTA has announced the subway will be closed until Friday. This is false, the spokesman said.

"Not that is absolutely not true," he said. "We never gave a date. We have to do an assessment damage, we have to repair the damage and then service will be restored. But there has never been a date associated with that."

He said MTA workers should probably be able to begin assessing the damage on Tuesday.

"Once the winds have died down and it's ok to go out and do a complete assessment and inspection they'll determine on a case by case basis when service should be resumed."

Battery tunnel is also flooded, a MTA spokeswoman said. The MTA has said rumours of fires in subway tunnels are false.


Explosion at ConEdison plant

Many people have reported witnessing bright lights in the sky over Manhattan due to an explosion at the ConEdison plant at 14th Street on the east side of the city. It appears this video, unconfirmed but widely shared, captured that moment. It's dramatic.


For video GO HERE





22.46

In a statement tonight New York City's mayor Mike Bloomberg said patients are having to be evacuated from NYU hospital after its back up generator failed. He said the failure came despite assurances it had been tested. Patients are now being moved out of the hospital.



Kathryn Schulz from New York Magazine has more information:



Verified, & worst news I've heard so far: NYU hospital generator failed. Personnel manually evacuating PICU & NICU down 9 flights of stairs.

Kathryn Schulz (@kathrynschulz) October 30, 2012




Con Edison workers trapped in New York power plant by Sandy: Reuters witness



Reuters



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nineteen workers were trapped inside a Consolidated Edison power station on the east side of Manhattan Monday night by rising floodwaters that accompanied the surge from powerful storm Sandy, according to a Reuters witness.


A rescue worker, who declined to be named, said the station had suffered an explosion inside.

This report has since been denied by the company


23.20
America's oldest nuclear power plant is on alert after waters reached high levels. Oyster Creek in Lacey Township, New Jersey, was already offline for maintenance but declared "an unusual event" after storm waters increased.

Two hours later, at 9pm ET, an "alert" was issued, the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system. Officials say the water is likely to recede in a couple of hours. 

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86th Street station flooding.




00.15

A hospital in New York is being evacuated after a backup generator failed when power went out earlier this evening. Dozens of ambulances have been ferrying around 200 patients from NYU Langone Hospital to other medical centres, Fox reporter Brian Quinn said, with city workers reportedly helping with the evacuation effort.

 

00.53

 Another dramatic image: floodwaters gushing into Hoboken Path station in New Jersey via an elevator shaft. The image was caught on the Port Authority's CCTV system. Subway lover Bill McKibben has published this lament.


Floodwaters from hurricane Sandy rush down an elevator shaft into Hoboken PATH station in New Jersey. Photograph: Reuters/Port Authority Trans-Hudson

To say that disruption to public transport should be expected would seem a colossal understatement.


01.13
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Who ever thought hurricanes could mean snow?

AccuWeather.com@breakingweather
#Sandy Update: 17 inches of snow has fallen so far in Davis, WV. Much more to come
  
ALERT
This headline has appeared - more as information comes to hand

Bedford Co, PA. EVAC due to Nuclear Warning!!

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