Superstorm Sandy slams East Coast, leaving floods, millions in dark

Section of Atlantic City, New Jersey as Sandy approached on Monday

As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation’s largest city unusually vacant and dark.

New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center.

The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.5 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.

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28 Comments

  1. Tri-State Beauty
    October 31, 2012

    Woosh DNO I will pass back. No lights, no diss, no dat, but we have life we will be back. A ti chance I voleh to peep in a cafe. Mother nature and sickness doh give a fat black baby’s butt who you think you are when they come. Sandy came, she saw, she conquered and she buckled the Tri-state to her knees literally! peace out!!

  2. anonymous2
    October 30, 2012

    More of HAARP’S work in causing and sustaining disasters. Sandy was seeded with chemicals and is being maintained with chemicals, as chemtrails coupled with TTA (Tesla radiowaves).
    They have planes flying into the hurricane and dumping chemicals to keep it going or have it change direction. Wise up people. This is the October surprise to postpone the election and Obama is in charge.

    • canefield
      October 31, 2012

      You are so right I have been studying these things for awhile now and the illuminati is behind it all to create fear and confusion sorely to make us weak and to accept their new world order haarp is causing earthquaks psunami and other super storms ithey control they control the weather .right now tthey wana cause d worse economic breakdown in history soon folowed by marshall law killings and concentation camps wake up people the illuminati is ready to cease control starting next year michael jackson knew it and was killed for hinting and refusing to be controlled buy them god help us next year gona deadly and 13 is their sacred number all backed up by the devil himself. Be informed pray and resist

    • noko
      October 31, 2012

      Loool I knew that was what you were on, this conspiracy nonsense. The weather system is one of the most chaotic planetary systems in existence. We don’t even understand it well enough to predict storm paths with complete accuracy much less to the point that we can control them. And I’m betting the most you know about HAARP is what you read from that conspiracy website they linked you to. smh

    • john doe
      October 31, 2012

      this is all haarps work same thing they did to haiti japan and remember hurricane catrina the illuminati is shaping up to take over next year and is causing fear and confusion causing economic depression soon martial law and concentration camps will follow mankind need topray and resist

    • Freethinker
      October 31, 2012

      Now, if you had even one bit of evidence to support that outlandish claim….

  3. coconut passion
    October 30, 2012

    its amazing how people fight with each other even on DNO. just read the comments above. Lord, we need you now.

  4. observant
    October 30, 2012

    I hope all Dominicans are safe. Not that I want anyone hurt is just that my people come first.

    • true
      October 31, 2012

      Sorry, by your comments that is exactly what you mean. who are your people? though you were a child of god? who you calling your people might not even know you.

  5. Nu la
    October 30, 2012

    This is no laughing matter. Some of you people sound so stupid. Don’t matter how prepared you think you are. This is mother nature. Man have no control over this. Not even the USA. The only difference is they can fund themselves. They give to order country’s and Island assistance when these things happen to them. So don’t worry they will be fine.

    • anonymous2
      October 30, 2012

      No it’s not mother nature at all.

      • noko
        October 31, 2012

        Hahaha let me guess someone just told you about HAARP and chemtrails? lmao

      • Freethinker
        October 31, 2012

        And who is it, then? Storm of the X-Men?

  6. jus saying
    October 30, 2012

    if obama was mayb more like skerrit den mayb the storm would hav spared dem!!

    • Really n Turly
      October 30, 2012

      well obama is not skerrit so why don’t you eat your spit,and good luck with your’scare-rit.

  7. Hungry
    October 30, 2012

    This is not funny. No matter where we are in the World we are all connected. Disaster well strike anywhere on different forms and fasion. We have to just know that no human being is in control. God the creator is in control. He is talking to us no matter wher we live, No country or person should creticize each other. We should just remember we are just passing through this earth and should Love and care for each other. Love more, Hate less, we are all in this together.

    • anonymous2
      October 30, 2012

      God had nothing to do with this.

      • true
        October 31, 2012

        Tell them again, but they will not understand, people tend to blame all the things that happen on this world on GOD, again he had nothing to do with it, NOTHING, seems we all put GOD in the same category as the “devil” why?
        I though god was loving compassionate, impartial and all.

        seems all those that call his name don’t know what he stands for

  8. Jennifer Esprit
    October 30, 2012

    This is just a glimpse of the devastation we are experiencing right now. Approximately 80 houses on fire, train stations under water, some tunnels in and out of Manhattan are invisible, some roads are impassible. There are massive destruction to the Atlantic City area and some areas in lower Brooklyn is completely covered and forget the Rockaways and the small islands off the Western coasts of New York, rescue workers can’t assess the damage yet.

    To any one seeing this message I want my family in the Belles area to know we are fine and doing ok. I tried reaching them but I can’t get through.

    • Say What!?
      October 30, 2012

      Ahhh no need to be over dramatic. I live in Williamsburg Brooklyn. There is flooding but nothing of the apocalyptic nature that you try to portray. Dominica has 24 hrs American TV news, they know exactly what is going on. Better than you and I.

  9. Emilien
    October 30, 2012

    You mean the GREAT USA was not prepared?I thought it is only in DA that the DIASPORANS criticize us for not taking precaution. You see it can happen anywhere!!

    • Just maybe
      October 30, 2012

      Maybe you can let us know how to prevent a hurricane from hitting the US.

      • anonymous2
        October 30, 2012

        If you have the plane, the right chemicals and the knowledge, you can.

    • Anonymous
      October 30, 2012

      you idiot. you can prepare and prepare but still have devastation and destruction. Preparation for natural disasters only minimizes risk, it doesn’t deter it.

    • Freethinker
      October 30, 2012

      Congratulations on posting the most idiotic comment so far.

  10. wortless
    October 30, 2012

    thx god my family r safe.

  11. New Yorker
    October 30, 2012

    I will be moving to Dominica in 2020 – maybe I will get away from these hurricanes :)

  12. Nudibranch
    October 30, 2012

    Should we send them aid and training on how to survive a hurricane?

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