Barely a week before the presidential election, about 50 million Americans have to face the threat of hurricanes Sandy, touted as the biggest storm that hit the United States throughout its history.
With a speed of 165 kilometers per hour, Sandy storm is predicted to have an impact on the area along 1300 kilometer which includes North Carolina to Connecticut. Thus, the storm may hit Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Philadelphia.
"We are facing a storm that could affect 50 million to 60 million people," said Louis Uccellini, Director of National Weather Service, NCEP.
According to Jeff Masters, hurricane expert who runs the Weather Underground, Sandy storm can be called as the Super Historic Storm. "This storm could be bigger than the Long Island Express, a storm that hit the New England area, killing 800 people in 1938," he said.
Sandy storm is unusual storm moving from Caribbean region to the north by the end of summer. However, high-pressure air from the Greenland blocking this storm towards the sea and shifted to the mainland. At the same time, the winter winds blowing from the west and the winds of the Arctic blowing from the north. "What makes this storm is so dangerous and unusual is this storm emerged in the late summer and early winter storm. So, this is a mixture of both, "said Masters.
Coupled with a full moon causing a tidal wave, Sandy storm has now become the hybrid storm which is predicted to create as high as 30 inches of rainfall, snowfall as high as 60 centimeters and 2.4 meters high waves.
"Three storms happen all at once is very rare, so we can not predict which areas are most severely affected," kara Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Florida.
In anticipation of the storm, governor of North Carolina to Connecticut declared a state of emergency. Governor of Delaware ordered a mandatory evacuation for residents who live in coastal areas.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also ordered the authorities to prepare to stop transport service subways, trains and public buses. Yesterday, Amtrak rail company cancelled a journey to East Coast, including Washington DC and New York. Then various airlines began to move their planes from a number of airports on the East Coast.
In Virginia, about 500 soldiers have been alert to clear the debris and open the highway. Local power company warned its citizens to face the possibility of power outages over the coming days, since the storm can damage the power lines.
As a result, the U.S. East Coast residents thronged the shops to buy a generator supplies, candles, food, and drinks as a precaution. "The people begin to panic. I sell 4,5,6 battery sets to one person, "said Joe Dautel a shopkeeper in Glenside Pennsylvania.
So far, the storm Sandy has claimed 59 lives as it crosses the Caribbean Islands.
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I sit and wonder why-yi-yi-yi oh why you left me, oh Sandy... ♫♪
A few hours ago my beloved fiance's humming it in the shower, ... Shh... ehehhe .... not that song, dahliing. Forgive us, O Lord. You know my fiance is very unique. Sometimes he appeared as if he was a Superman, but a few hours he was exactly like a baby, yi-yi-yi a kind of super baby who could not stop hugging me for over an hour. He did not say his fears, he just asked what was I feeling, what could I see from all of this situation.
I told him that I saw the desert and the sea. But I did not see something very terrible **). I just felt the hot desert wind blowing over the ocean. Just that. That's it. Then It went away without the knowledge or permission of the most intelligent people. A moment later I felt very hungry, but I did not want to eat anything. After that I felt everything was back to normal. (I felt I wanted to cry when I saw -- every time I felt -- the spirit of some good American people.)
"Honey, are we going to die today?" he asked in a very soft voice. The most honest question of the most honest feeling in such situation: being gripped. (Then I started to think that the best lover of each of us was the mortality. You even did not wait for your date with a pounding feeling like this. If I was wrong, so, for what we were silent and waiting here? What are you waiting here at this time?)
I looked into his eyes with deep feeling. (Oh Blue Eyes, Blue Eyes, from whence you came? Blue Sea Oh Blue Sea, where are you going? Blue Sky, Blue Sky, Oh where are you now, Oh? Blue Sky and Blue Sea, do you both know how much I love his blue eyes?)
Blue Sky, Blue Sea and Blue Eyes did not answer me, nor me. No need a word. I just hugged him with a very secure feeling, realizing that the safest place for our baby at the time was my womb. Vaguely, I heard my heart began to hum with a sense of gratitude that came in between this fear, hope, and faith : all this fear coming to an end.)
I hoped I was given a sharp hearing as sharp as the silence.**)What I meant by something very terrible was -- for example-- such as the victims of tsunami 2004 or Japan's tsunami 2011 or the 911 victims or the victims in Palestine 2008 / Gaza war, or the drone victims in Pakistan, Arab Spring's victims 2011, Libya and others, and so on.
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