Hurricane Sandy has made its way onto the shores of Southern Jersey. She has landed with winds gusting at 90 mph with what is described as a wall of seawater. The hurricane is set to arrive in NYC in an hour so. click below to find out more.
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The monster storm, a powerful, 900-mile-wide hybrid of several weather systems, sent 30-foot-high swells toward the garden State, and as its eye passed over the shoreline, a surge as high as 10 feet tore into dunes and washed across boardwalks. The state had evacuated all shore towns ahead of the strike, with Gov. Chris Christie telling residents who ignored the evacuation orders they were “both stupid and selfish.”
“[It’s a] very intense, very dangerous storm. People will die in this storm,” Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Monday. “So folks will need to mind their families, stay home and hunker down.”
Even homes on stilts were threatened by the massive surge, and water was cresting dunes and boardwalks from Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach to Jones Beach in New York.
The hurricane, which has already cost hundreds of thousands of people power and caused flooding through a wide swath of the nation’s most populous region, was expected to pound the nation’s biggest city with hurricane-force winds for hours Monday night. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down all major New York bridges and schools, airports and the New York Stock Exchange were closed for Tuesday. North of Atlantic City, the hurricane was expected to be at maximum force from about 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., with gusts up to 90 mph, especially on ocean-facing beaches. For Long Island, Connecticut, and the rest of coastal New England, the high impact winds could last until midnight, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Weather Journal.
