Huge fires and destruction for "Sandys' rampage
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| Huge fires and destruction for "Sandys' rampage |
14.54: The death toll is expected to rise because many people still missing
14.40: According crisis calculation agency Eqecat storm will affect over 60 million Americans.
13.51: 145,000 customers are without power in Canada, Reuters reported.
13.42: More major American websites are down by flooding the premises of the central server Datagram Inc in New York. Huffington Post and Gawker is one website that has problems, Reuters reported.
13.33: New Jersey's largest utility company has shut down a nuclear power plant because most of the water pumps are useless. There should be no other problems at the plant, and the situation is described as stable.
13.20: Wall Street hold still closed Tuesday. It is the first time since 1888 that the NYSE is closed on two consecutive days because of the weather. Both the NYSE and Nasdaq plans to reopen tomorrow.
12.41: Great While ravages, according to U.S. media probably cost over 20 billion dollars. The national weather service says there are reports of rain in five days in the U.S. for "Sandy" has passed.
12.02: Public transport is back in Boston, reports CNN.
11.52: A total 85 people are now confirmed dead in the Caribbean, U.S. and Canada as a result of "Sandy." Of these, 16 were killed in the United States and one in Canada.
11.40: Hundreds of people evacuated from Moonachie, New Jersey, where a dam burst on Tuesday morning. The whole city will be under water.
11:05: 13,500 departures from the northeast coast of the United States to all parts of the world are now confirmed set. This is the flight that was taken by yesterday or today. In addition, there are already 500 of Wednesday's departures set, and more are expected, reports the AP.
10.50: A dam has burst in New Jersey, police said. The cities Moonachie, Little Ferry Carlstadt now partly submerged. There are so far no reports of casualties, but taking no chances.
- We are rescue mode, said Geanne Baratta, chief of the local rescue authorities.
10:38: Obama declares state of catastrophe in New York for 'Sandy' storm, reports AFP. With this declaration, federal funds put into the relief efforts in the affected areas.
10.17: According to the latest updated forecasts from the National Weather Center meteorological notification email , "Sandy" is now west and cross the southern Pennsylvania, with a maximum force of 105 km / h. It is expected that "Sandy" will hold a westerly or northwesterly course, with a slower pace as the storm approaches the western Pennsylvania. Wednesday is expected to enter Canada.
0956: It has broken out fire after Sandys raids in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Fire crews have, like his colleagues who fought against the flames in Queens, New York, difficulty to get through because of the water. Two houses are so far reported total casualties.
09.50: It issued flood warnings for the east coast, in the expectation that high tides are moving into. It cautioned against minor flooding, according to the NWS Boston.
09.30: It may take a week before power is completely back to New York after the storm, says power company coned in a statement, according to news agency AP.
09.19: No people have been evacuated out of the fire fighters from the 50 total damaged homes after the great fire in Queens, said fire department in New York to the local newspaper ny1, but it is unknown if someone found themselves there when it broke out at 6 o'clock Norwegian time Tuesday . The large water body for "Sandy" has hampered firefighters.
09.05: The Norwegian authorities have not received reports of injuries Norwegians or Norwegian in need after the hurricane hit New York Sandy. It is unclear how many Norwegian located in the area.
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8:58: The fire department reports that more than 50 homes are destroyed by fire in Queens. It has gained control of the majority of the fire, but it is not signed off yet.
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| 'Sandy' hit New Jersey ... At least 16 are dead, several major fires and devastation in and around New York has been Barack Obama to declare Official Federal disaster. |
170 firefighters battling the flames now in Queens, New York, according to NBC News. It has not yet come into reports that the fire is under control.
08.30: The government raises death toll further 16 people are now confirmed dead after the storm, "Sandy." Among these is one of the two who went missing after the sailing ship "Bounty" which sank Monday night. The captain is still missing. The victims are spread over the states of New Jersey, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, as well as a woman died in Toronto, Canada.
08.20: Owner company Exelon Corp. has raised the alarm about the state of the nuclear power plant Oyster Creek in New Jersey after the water has risen.
It is the U.S. government nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Commission that has sounded the alarm on the second level, called "alert" after the water level has risen 2 meters due to Hurricane Sandy. If the water rises further, the nuclear plant to open water to cool the spent fuel rods of uranium.
The increased water levels may have consequences for the pumps that circulate the water that cools the fuel rods.
08.04: Fire in Queens, New York is now upgraded to a so-called 5-alarm fire, which is the highest level of emergency. There are still issues with empty fire hydrants in fire fighting, and the smell of fire spreading now all over Queens and other parts of the city, according to witness accounts on Twitter.
07.45: There are reports of flooding in seven underground tunnels and six bus garages in New York. So bad has never been, despite 108 years of service to the city's subway system.
- We have never seen a disaster as devastating as this. This affects our entire transportation system in the region, said Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
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