Effects from the storm are already being felt in Canada, to the north, and the Great Lakes, to the west. Sandy is giving off sustained winds of ninety miles per hour, with gusts reaching towards one hundred and fifty miles per hour.
In Manhattan, New York, the top of a crane was knocked over by the winds, and it dangled eighty stories over the street. Several buildings across New York City, have reportedly collapsed. La Guardia Airport is among places that are flooded.
Sections of the Atlantic City, where the center of the storm made landfall, boardwalk were seen washing away into the raging surf, that is bringing storm surges as high as forty feet to New England, evacuations happened all along the coast. Flooding has already occurred all along the eastern sea board, with Delaware and Maryland reporting the worst damage from the rising waters.
More than three million were reportedly without power, from Virginia on north, and to avoid further damage power companies began shutting off power. Mass transits in major metros such as New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia either already have been shut down, or are considering doing so.
Most of the states, in the path, had already declared emergencies, with West Virginia doing so as it expects to see as much as two feet of snow, due to the storm. Nearly fifteen thousand flights, around the country and world, have been cancelled as airlines don't want to risk flying anywhere that the storm is.
Off the coast of North Carolina, the US Coast Guard rescued fourteen people from a replica of the HMS Bounty, after it was caught in the storm, two of the crew are believed to have gone down with the ship, early Monday morning. One of their bodies was found later.
Other death reports, in the US, started coming in, just before landfall. One in Maryland and two in NYC. The storm already killed forty-one as it crossed through the islands of the Caribbean.
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