I watched CNN yesterday night which i normally don't do for more than an hour, and there i saw what Sandy had caused. I started to pray for my loved ones in New Jersey and New York ...all said they were okay...hmmm that response wasn't good for me, because i was actually watching the TV and i had a clue of what was going on.
My cousin's son who has just been to Nigeria once, saw his mum lighting a candle when there was black out in New Jersey and what did he say "Mummy, whose birthday is it today?" when she told me, i burst out laughing, at least that made me smile. I started pinging my sister who stays in New York ... she told me "I am safe but continue to pray for me".
This Sandy chic is actually putting the presidential campaign on hold, just a week before election day. At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storm.
Sandy knocked out power to at
least 5.7 million people, and New York's main utility said large
sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with
250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from
three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.
Just before its centre reached
land, the storm was stripped of hurricane status, but the distinction
was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It
still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say
it remained every bit as dangerous to the 50 million people in its path.
By late night, the centre of the storm was over southern New Jersey.
The National Hurricane Center
announced at 8 p.m. that Sandy had come ashore near Atlantic City. It
smacked the boarded-up big cities of the Northeast corridor, from
Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia, New York and Boston, with
stinging rain and gusts of more than 85 135 kilometres per hour. The sea
surged a record of nearly four metres at the foot of Manhattan,
flooding the financial district and subway tunnels.
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