The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center, issued at 11 p.m., said that the storm was still 470 miles from New York City and moving northward at 14 miles per hour.... the storm still likely to make landfall somewhere in the vicinity of southern New Jersey by late Monday evening....In Ocean City, Md., where residents were evacuated earlier in the day, live-streaming Web cams – now disabled – showed the storm surge already reaching up to the boardwalk..... School was called off and residents of low-lying areas of the city and shore towns were told to evacuate
From South Carolina all the way up to Maine, people are being warned to prepare -- and, in some cases, evacuate.....Subways, buses, trains and more are being shut down in various places as the storm approaches......Tens of thousands of people were also ordered to evacuate coastal areas across the northeastern United States, including in New Jersey and Connecticut, as officials opened shelters to house the displaced. About 50,000 people in Delaware were told to leave their homes
the death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti....Sandy also killed 11 in Cuba, where officials said it destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of houses. Deaths were also reported in Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. Authorities in the Dominican Republic said the storm destroyed several bridges and isolated at least 130 communities while damaging an estimated 3,500 homes......
