Most parts of New York on Monday was plunged into darkness by a city with a long history of the seaside superstorm overflow and flooded the financial district and the subway tunnel, and cut off the power to hundreds of thousands of people.
The city has closed its mass transit system, school, stock exchange and Broadway, and ordered the hundreds of thousands of New York, leaving home out of the way of superstorm sandy focus on the country's largest city.
Residents spent a lot of time trying to save the normal work and rest, jogging and take pictures of water, and officials have warned that the most severe storms also didn't hit.
In the evening, a record 13 feet of storm surge threat to the southernmost tip of Manhattan, the left crane from top and utilities deliberately darkened part of downtown Manhattan, in order to avoid the damage done by storm.
Stephen said: "it is a complete ghost towns," wes blah, from 10 floor apartment in Manhattan the dungeon a weak.
The tide was coming in, seawater flap in battery park city seawall, railway station, subway track, tunnels and road flood. Rescue workers floating bright orange raft down and flooded flourishing street, the police in the street slowly rolling a megaphone tell people to go home.
"Now, it really became what," said Brian Damianakes, shelter in ATM vestibule, looking at trash can hit the Battery Park (Battery Park) in the street before the storm surge.
Mayor Michael bloomberg said that the surge in on Monday night and is expected to fall at night 12 o 'clock, 11 feet more than the original expectations.
We know that this is a very dangerous storms and storm has reached our expectations, "he said," this is a storm once in a long time. "
Soon after, the huge storm in New Jersey south log in, joint Edison cut off power supply intentionally in midtown Manhattan about 6500 customers, in order to avoid further damage. Then, the huge huge black, city lost power, in Manhattan's 250000 users, joint Edison company spokesman Chris Olert said,.
New York university hospital lost standby power, Bloomberg said. Monday night, bright-coloured orange explosion lit up the night sky of lower Manhattan, the nearby Edison substation.
"It sounds like the fourth of July, and said:" wes blah.



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