Superstorm Sandy plows into Jersey shore - 2.2 million without power; sustained winds at 90 mph
Story by NBC News
Written by M. Alex Johnson and Miguel Llanos
Hurricane Sandy began breaking up as it hit the New Jersey shore Monday evening on what's expected to be a destructive path across the Northeast, plunging more than 2 million into darkness, flooding beach towns and crippling transportation across a huge swath of the Eastern U.S.
Sandy made landfall at Atlantic City, N.J., about 6:45 p.m. ET, throwing off sustained winds of 90 mph, NBC New York reported.
The National Hurricane Center re-designated Sandy as a "post-tropical cyclone," saying it was rapidly losing its tropical characteristics as it merged into an enormous nor'easter. Regardless, it was still packing hurricane-force winds, and "it's only going to get worse," Mike Seidel, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel.
About 2.2 million customers — half of them in New York and New Jersey — had already lost power. Schools, offices, roads and transit systems shut down across an area of 50 million people.
As Sandy's winds howled and rain poured over Atlantic City — parts of which were already under 5 feet of water — Gov. Chris Christie said Monday evening that it was now too late to evacuate.
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Written by M. Alex Johnson and Miguel Llanos
Hurricane Sandy began breaking up as it hit the New Jersey shore Monday evening on what's expected to be a destructive path across the Northeast, plunging more than 2 million into darkness, flooding beach towns and crippling transportation across a huge swath of the Eastern U.S.
Sandy made landfall at Atlantic City, N.J., about 6:45 p.m. ET, throwing off sustained winds of 90 mph, NBC New York reported.
The National Hurricane Center re-designated Sandy as a "post-tropical cyclone," saying it was rapidly losing its tropical characteristics as it merged into an enormous nor'easter. Regardless, it was still packing hurricane-force winds, and "it's only going to get worse," Mike Seidel, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel.
About 2.2 million customers — half of them in New York and New Jersey — had already lost power. Schools, offices, roads and transit systems shut down across an area of 50 million people.
As Sandy's winds howled and rain poured over Atlantic City — parts of which were already under 5 feet of water — Gov. Chris Christie said Monday evening that it was now too late to evacuate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49593609/ns/weather/#__utma=14933801.1443849238.1351260793.1351260793.1351556081.2&__utmb=14933801.2.10.1351556081&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1351260793.1.1.utmcsr=%28direct%29utmccn=%28direct%29utmcmd=%28none%29&__utmv=14933801.8=Earned%20By=msnbccover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=149001782
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