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Jersey City is dealing with a full-fledged disaster tonight, with extensive flooding throughout Downtown that has both City Hall and the Jersey City Medical Center surrounded by water, officials said.
Employees with the city’s communications department and the Mayor’s Action Bureau had to leave City Hall when it lost power, spokesman Stan H. Eason said.
Meanwhile, officials said they are investigating reports of numerous collapses in buildings throughout the city, including a facade collapse at a Newport highrise.
Fire Director Armando Roman said earlier tonight he was on his way to 31 Newport Parkway, where there were reports that the building’s facade collapsed between the sixth and 16th floors. Roman said his vehicle got trapped in rising waters on his way to the emergency. (more)
The power is going on and off in New Jersey – The Optimists in New York City are proclaiming the Subways destroyed forever…. CNN reports that no-one in New Orleans could see the floating bodies til sunrise after Katrina, um, yeah, whatever that means…
…. oh yeah, and a crane fell down. The Humanity !!
Early reports are alarming those who live around the immediate Central Park area. Apparently fresh creme’ is going to be unavailable first thing in the morning. Mayor Bloomberg alerted the National Guard and the White House situation room to be prepared for immediate crisis intervention. Police Chief Kelly making plans for armored personell vehicles to escort convoys from Rhode Island.
This is getting a little bit beyond silly. Is it any surprise given that NYC is the nucleus of all things within the liberal universe – including the Media.
West Side of Storm bringing snow to Davis West Virginia
Picture from Jersey City – Storm Surge Beginning on the Hudson River.
(CNN) — Weather forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Sandy could cause “unprecedented damage”affecting up to 60 million people by the time it’s finished with the East Coast.
Landfall is expected Monday night, but the storm is already wreaking havoc in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. More than 100,000 people across seven states are already without power, and cities like New York, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia are shut down. Public transit systems aren’t running, schools and workplaces are closed, and thousands of flights and trains have been canceled. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — From Washington to Boston, big cities and small towns were buttoned up Monday against the onslaught of a superstorm that threatened 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, with forecasters warning that the New York area could get the worst of it — an 11-foot wall of water.
“The time for preparing and talking is about over,” Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate said Sunday as Hurricane Sandy made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the U.S. “People need to be acting now.” (article)