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October 30, 2012--Vicious Superstorm Sandy smashes U.S. northeast cities (Environmental News Service)

Claiming 69 lives in the Caribbean countries it ravaged last week, Hurricane Sandy struck land near Atlantic City, New Jersey about 8 pm Monday night. Four hours later, 11 more people have lost their lives to the howling winds and flooding rains of the enormous storm. Stretching nearly 1,000 miles along the Atlantic coast, the winds from Hurricane Sandy blew down power lines and trees, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. Crews cannot get to the stricken lines in the dark along flooded streets and roadways. The big cities of the Northeast, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, all endured torrential rainfall and winds gusting to more than 85 mph. As Sandy turned northwestward over land, it met a cold-weather system from the north that turned it into an unprecedented superstorm, dumping up to three feet of snow in West Virginia and the central Appalachians. Now classified as a post-tropical cyclone, Sandy is still packing hurricane-force winds, although it is weakening slightly as it moves north across New England.

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