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Sandy rips through NYC

> From the WeatherWatch archives

Here’s an update on some of the incredible storm damage from Sandy:

-Cars are floating down Manhattan streets and people are being rescued by boats in Manhattan.

-Windows blown out at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, a skyscraper that is also the home of the NBC television network.  That rained shards of glass down onto the street below.

-Flooding confirmed at the World Trade Center construction site

-Major flooding confirmed in the subway system

-Over 4 million people across 11 states are without power.

-The floor of the New York Stock Exchange is NOT flooded despite some earlier reports

-Both LaGuardia and JFK airports are closed.  LaGuardia runways have water over them.

-5 confirmed deaths in New York

-2 confirmed deaths in New Jersey

-1 confirmed death in Connecticut, 1 in West Virginia and 1 off the North Carolina Coast 

Homepage image/ Wold Trade Center construction site from The Weather Channel

-WeatherWatch.co.nz with information from CNN and The Weather Channel

 

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