The North Carolina coast has already received three days of rain. It is not expected to clear for at least another three days if Sandy continues its current path. It is a whole lot of water.
Regardless of its official category, Sandy is expected to be a monstrous storm that poses a serious threat for the entire Eastern Seaboard (click here)
BY VICTORIA CAVALIERE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 7:48 AM
Updated: Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:01 AM
Hurricane Sandy is setting up to become an “unprecedented” storm that could leave millions of people in the northeast without power for days or even weeks, experts said Saturday.
“This storm will affect millions and cost billions,” AccuWeather forecaster Marshall Moss told the Daily News.
“This is really going to be a huge storm and something unprecedented in meteorological terms,” he predicted.
Emergency preparations were already under way in the city, with the MTA considering a total shut down of buses and subways if worst predictions hold when the storm blows into the region late Sunday. City officials were mulling the evacuation of as many as 375,000 New Yorkers.
Experts say the storm shows no sign of slowing its current northward track up the Atlantic, and its impact will rattle states along the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine....
