New York City Braces for Storm

        City and State officials braced Sunday for a brutal bearing by Hurricane Sandy, ordering all public transportation to shut down. Governor  Cuomo ordered the MTA to end all subway bus and commuter rail service beginning Sunday evening and urged people to stay home. Areas of evacuation in the low lying neighborhoods and are being ordered to evacuate to higher grounds adding that all public schools in the same areas will be closed on Monday stating that “When there’s no mass transit, and with weather as bad as it’s going to be, we don’t want to put children’s lives at risk”. Subway and train service will be coming to a grinding halt by 7pm and by 9pm bus services will be as well. It’s unclear how long the transit services will be closed down for the governor said but the storm system from the west and cold air from Canada is expected to wreak true havoc on the New York region.

          Meteorologists are predicting gusts of wind to top 80 miles per hour and storm surges to reach 11 fee when the killer cane makes landfall along the central New Jersey coast Monday night right at the high tide. Last year Hurricane Irene devastated New York for 12 hours and Sandy is expected to hit for a total of 24 to 36 hours. Governor Cuomo said on Sunday “ This is nothing to take lightly. You want to stay at home, be prepared, enjoy the family, read a book”. That sounded pretty luxurious for those individuals but for the 375,000 people living in Brighton Beach, Battery Park , Broad Channel and other low-lying zone A neighborhoods Bloomberg ordered evacuated by Sunday afternoon. The city has close to 72 shelters for those individuals to stay but most are resorting to family and friends out of the evacuated areas. For those who are planning on stick out the storm have a “Shove it Sandy” kind of attitude for the storm. Officials are also activating 1100 national Guard members 400 on Long Island and 200 in the city. I guess in a situation like this you wait and prepare for the worst but hope for the best.    

New York Daily News – October 28^th 2012