HURRICANE SANDY!

HURRICANE SANDY YAFANYIZA MBAYA NY, NJ

• Sandy May Drive Subway Rats onto NYC Streets

Posted: 30 Oct 2012

Crane ikivunjika kutokana na upepo mkali kwenye jengo lililokua
linajengwa Mtaa wa West 57th Manhattan, New York. Mpaka 
sasa hizi ni watu 16, wameipoteza maisha wengi wao kuangukiwa na miti 
kutokana na  Hurricane Sandy na watu milioni 7 hawana umeme

Jiji la Manhattan likiwa limegubikwa na wingu zito la Hurricane
Sandy na huku likiwa kwenye kiza kinene

Holland Tunnel New York City, New York ikiwa imefungwa,
Holland Tunnel ni daraja linalopita chini ya maji ya mto Hudson
unaotenganisha New York na New Jersey

Maji ya bahari yakifurika mitaani katika mji wa Atlantic City, New Jersey

Mitaa ya Atlantic City ikiwa imefurika maji

Mitaa ya Atlantic City ikianza kujaa maji ya Hurricane Sandy

Mitaa ya Atlantic City ikianza kuathirika na mafuriko

Jerry Smith akiangalia mbwa wake wakichezea maji yaliyoanza kujaa
kwenye mtaa wa South Long Beach ulopo Freeport, New York.

Mitaa iliyopo Freeport, New York.

Wakaazi wa mji huu wa Freeport, New York wakijaribu kuondoka
baada ya kuona maji yanazidi kujaa Kwa picha zaidi bofya read more

Mitaa ya Queens, New York

Mitaa ya New Jersey

Hapa ni winthrop, Massachusetts

Atlantic city New Jersey

Atlantic City

Jamaa wanatembea kwa miguu baada ya gari yao kuzimika
kwenye mji waLindenhurst, New York

Nyumba ikiwa imeningirwa na maji kwenye mji wa Copaique,
New York

Mitaa ya Copaique, New York

Afisa wa Polisi wa Long Beach akipata ukodaka moment

Miti ikiwa imeanza kuanguka kama unavyoona kwenye huu mji wa Lindenhurst,
New York

Hii kitu ni nzito lakini angalia ilivyonyanyuliwa na upepo na kutupwa kwenye
nyaya za umeme hapa ni Long Island

JFK ikiwaimefurika maji

Maji yakiwa yamefurika kwenye njia za kurukia ndege LaGuardia airport,
New York

New York's longest night: 

Manhattan goes dark, 

6 MILLION without 

power and 14 dead as 

Sandy throws 13 foot wall 

of water at US

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 

Frantic: Paramedics evacuate patients from New York University Tisch 

Hospital after a power outage left 5.7million people in the dark

Concerns: Medics help a patient into an ambulance 

during an evacuation of NYU Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed

Red alert: Emergency vehicles snake around 

a corner outside the NYU Medical Center

Painstaking care: Ambulances line up outside Tisch as 

doctors and nurses begin the slow process of taking people out

 hurricane hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night (11:30pm GMT), 

having laid waste to large parts of the coast throughout the day. 

ew York city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock 

exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of 

New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of Sandy as it 

zeroed in on the largest city in the US. a 13 foot wall of water caused 

by the storm surge and high tides caused floodwater to rush into the 

Hoboken PATH train station in New Jersey. Power was cut across 

lower Manhattan in a bid to minimise damage to infrastructure

Howling: Conditions in New Jersey deteriorate as the superstorm
makes landfall, causing widespread destruction

Slammed: People take shelter on the flooded pier as the effects
of Hurricane Sandy are felt in Rockaway Beach, New York.

Emergency: Braving horrendous conditions, a worker uses a
chainsaw to cut  up a felled tree that knocked over a street light in York City, 
Pennsylvania, as Superstorm Sandy continues on its path.

Ground Zero: The construction site at Ground Zero is inundated
by flood waters in Lower Manhattan

Power out: Lower Manhattan goes dark as Hurricane Sandy sweeps
across America's East Coast, causing untold damage and putting lives at risk

Submerged: Cars disappear from view as water rises in New York's
flood-hit financial district, which lay in Hurricane Sandy's path

Submerged: Water from Manhattan's East River floods East
20th Street during Hurricane Sandy

Dangerous: A woman wades through the water in New York as
cars become submerged in the floods

Floods: Vehicles are submerged during a storm surge near the
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York

Dramatic: A CCTV monitor shows floodwater rushing into the subway
system in New York as Hurricane Sandy causes widespread devastation

Waves in the city: Streets are flooded under the Manhattan
Bridge in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York.

Waterproofs: Wearing wellington boots and a hooded jacket,
a resident navigates the flooded streets of the Dumbo
neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York Sandy had laid waste to 
large parts of the coast throughout the day, leaving more than two 
million without power in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 
North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia while whole cities 
have been flooded and billions of dollars of damage expected.

But as darkness fell, Sandy was about to make landfall at Cape May,
New Jersey. Winds rose up to 90mph with fresh warnings that
the 'most severe part of the storm is now beginning'.

Storm surges of more than 12ft have already been recorded
in Long Island, with waters rising quickly in Lower Manhattan as high 
tide approaches. Howling winds of 100mph have been reported on the 
RFK Bridge in upper Manhattan as gales were expected to last for hours. 

A below-ground carpark in the Financial District of New York floods
as waters rushes into the garage

All Broadway shows had been cancelled on Monday evening.

Utilities company ConEd had called customers to warn it will shut
off power lines across Manhattan and Brooklyn, meaning millions
more will be affected. Consolidated Edison spokesman Chris Olert said 
on Monday evening that the power was out for most of Manhattan 
south of 26th Street. On the east side, the power outage extended 
from 29th Street south. There were some scattered areas that 
still had electricity. Olert said the damage stemmed from flooding 
and the probable loss of a transmission feeder. 

The power outage was separate from a planned power cut that Con
Ed did in certain lower Manhattan neighborhoods to protect underwater
systems from flood damage. Olert said there were 250,000 customers 
without power in Manhattan. A customer represents a single meter, 
so the number of people actually affected is likely higher. 
The company shut off power in 200,000 homes in the area in last 
year's Hurricane Irene - but this year's storm packs a much fiercer punch.

Atlantic City officials were trying to rescue around 500 people trapped
in their homes during the direct hit. Most of the city's 40,000 residents
had evacuated as directed.

Concern: Governor Andrew Cuomo (centre) inspects a deluge of
water flooding the Battery Tunnel in Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy
approaches New York

Crash: A fallen tree with its roots ripped from the road and a power
line lie over homes on Harvard Street in Garden City, New York

Here it comes! Hurricane Sandy barrels into Cape May, New Jersey today

Ferocious: The storm kicks off in Southampton, New York today
as the brutal weather conditions bear down on the East Coast

Saved: An elderly man is rescued by volunteer firemen in West Atlantic City,
New Jersey, as the hurricane causes colossal damage to East Coast towns and cities

All along the waterfront: A police car patrols the waterfront in Brooklyn,
New York this evening as Sandy batters the Big Apple

Here it comes: The waves rise in Edgewater, New Jersey as
Hurricane Sandy lashes the East Coast

Landfall: Ocean waves kick up near homes along 
Peggoty Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts

Making waves: Heavy surf crashes over a seawall during
the early stages of Hurricane Sandy in Kennebunk, Maine

Threatening: Rising water from the Hudson River overtakes
a bank drive-through in Edgewater, New Jersey

Vicious: Waves crash against a previously damaged pier in Atlantic City, 
New Jersey 

before landfall of Hurricane Sandy before flooding communities

Wide open: A row of houses stands in floodwaters at

Grassy Sound in North Wildwood, New Jersey as Hurricane Sandy
pounds the East Coast

Beached: A boat washes ashore on Carson Beach as wind and waves from
Hurricane Sandy hit the north-east coast of the US

 

Uharibifu uliofanwa na kimbunga Sandy  New York City

  

Kazi ya usafi sambamba na uokozi inaendelea
katika majiji mbalimbali Marekani

 

Jiji la New jersey lilivyoharibiwa

 

Nyumba zaidi ya mia moja zimewaka moto ukiachilia
mbali magari na mali nyingine

  

Wananchi wakiangalia mabaki ya nyumba zao

 

Barabara zote za chini zimejaa maji

  

Mtoto akiokolewa maeneo ya Manhattan, New York

  

Njia za reli na barabara sikiwa zimeharibiwa vibaya

 

Watu wakiendelea kuokolewa New York

Jiji la Toronto linavyoonekana leo

 

Nyumba bado zimezungukwa na maji Grassy Sound kaskazini
mwa Wildwood, New York

  

  

Boti iliyojikuta katikati ya njia za reli baada ya kimbunga Sandy

 

 

New York Financial District

 

  

Yadi ya magari ikiwa imefunikw ana maji

BAADHI YA UHARIBIFU ULIOFANYWA NA HURRICANE SANDY Posted: 31 Oct 2012 08:35 AM PDT Boats are seen piled up after being thrown off their stands by  Hurricane Sandy at a marina in Bay Shore, New York Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the  New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150  Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the  New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150  Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the  New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission A man looks at a damaged house in Seagate Association,  a gated community, after last night's Hurricane Sandy in New York A woman stands in a street damaged by rising waters in  Seagate Association, a gated community, after last night's  Hurricane Sandy in New York A man looks inside a cottage along Roy Carpenter's Beach  that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Matunuck, Rhode Island Tom and Deidre Duffy look through the wreckage of their home  devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy are seen  the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York New York's subways swamped after Sandy Benches stand flooded by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy in Shinnecock Hills, New York, the monster storm bearing down  on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of  thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down  and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. Damage from the storm surge and wind created by Hurricane Sandy  is seen in the greatly affected community of Atlantique on Fire Island,  New York.  Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of the  whipping winds and heavy rains of the massive storm Sandy on  Tuesday as New York City and many parts of the eastern United States  struggled with epic flooding and extensive power outages. Sandy floods causes power outages.  Superstorm Sandy battered  New York City on Monday, leaving entire sections of Manhattan  without power and flooding tunnels Debris from the storm surge and winds created by  Hurricane Sandy lie near a damaged house in the heavily  affected community of Atlantique on Fire Island, New York,  Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke  on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm  Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the  nation's most densely populated region, swamped  New York's subway system and submerged streets  in Manhattan's financial district

Picha: from Vijimambo na Goldentz blogs

Sandy May Drive Subway Rats onto NYC Streets

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com

New Yorkers may see an unwanted group of refugees in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — the rats that live in the city's subway tunnels.

As of Noon on Tuesday (Oct. 30), seven subway tunnels under the East River had flooded due toHurricane Sandy, and many of the other subterranean lairs the seemingly invincible creatures inhabit were also inundated. That may push the rodent survivors of the deluge onto the New York streets.

"Most of the rats that are living there will actually drown," said Herwig Leirs, a rodentologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

While rats can swim or float for up to four days, they may get trapped without air in small pipes and crannies as they seek higher ground, Leirs told LiveScience.

The rushing water will also work against them.

"Rats will be carried away by the current and won't be strong enough to swim to the surface and breathe, or they'll be pushed to grates, they will get stuck there and they won't be strong enough to swim against the current," he said.

Baby rats will perish unless their mothers can carry them to safety, wrote Robert M. Corrigan, a rodentologist who works with the city of New York on its pest problem, in an email. Even those who survive the flooding will be doomed unless they can find a safe shelter with lots of food, he said.

Fewer rats, more visible

If the water is pumped out quickly, many rats will remain underground. The floodwaters likely brought a bonanza of garbage for vermin to feast on in the underground tunnels, Leirs said.

But if water lingers underground for several days, subway rats may pop up aboveground, Leirs said. And the deserted, debris-strewn streets of New York will provide ample food and shelter for the lucky few that survived, he added.

"At least for the first few days, you will expect that rats will be a bit more bold," Leirs said.

Rodents hit a similar trashy jackpot in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina swept through in 2005, bringing plenty of garbage and shelter in empty buildings, according to news reports. Hurricane Isaac, however, washed ashore tens of thousands of dead "swamp rats," whose rotting corpses presented quite a health hazard in Mississippi. 

Disease risk

Some 28 million rats have been reported to lurk in the dark, wet subway tunnels of New York City, though official numbers are hard to come by. Whether these rats, post-flooding, pose a human health risk will depend on how quickly water above ground evaporates and how quickly subway crews can clean out the tunnels.

Rats can carry leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that causes fever, nausea and occasionally meningitis. If rats urinate in stagnant pools of water, people with open wounds who come in contact with the water could become infected, Leirs said.

Repair crews may encounter a gory sight when reentering the tunnels: Tons of dead rats, Leirs said. But with the city's debris swept underground, that may be the least of their concerns.

"I am sure they will find much more gruesome things than some dead rats," Leirs said.