Seorang penduduk kelihatan lalui tinggalan rumah terbakar dalam Breezy Point kejiranan New York, 30 Oktober, 2012. (A resident looks over the remains of burned homes in the Breezy Point neighborhood of New York, October 30, 2012. (Reuters/Keith Bedford)
Manhattan gelap dilihat selepas banyak bandar hilang elektrik kerana kesan Taufan Sandy pada 30 Oktober, 2012 di New York, Amerika Syarikat. (A darkened Manhattan is viewed after much of the city lost electricity due to the affects of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
Taufan tukul NY: 10 mati, rumah-rumah yang
dimusnahkan oleh kebakaran, banjir aneh di kereta
bawah tanah (PHOTOS, VIDEO) . . .
Letupan, kebakaran, dan banjir telah memusnahkan New York, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya sepuluh orang di seluruh negeri. Sebagai Taufan Sandy melanda bandar ia meninggalkan lebih 50 buah rumah dibakar, sekurang-kurangnya tujuh terowong bawah tanah membanjiri dan hampir 2 juta New York tanpa kuasa. Bahagian Brooklyn, Manhattan dan Staten Island adalah air sebagai taufan Sandy merentasi New York. Kebanyakan bandar kini tanpa kuasa, dan transit massa telah ditutup sehingga notis selanjutnya.
Sporadis letupan boleh didengar di seluruh bandar. Kecemasan 911 pengendali menerima 10,000 panggilan setiap setengah jam, Pejabat NYC Mayor dilaporkan. Talian kuasa dijatuhkan telah mencetuskan kebakaran banyak yang terus melanda bandar. Laporan Pertama api utama telah datang dari kawasan Taman Rockaway Queens, New York. Beberapa jam kemudian, api melanda 15 buah rumah di Point Berangin, Queens, dan 190 anggota bomba berada di tapak melawan api. Kebakaran telah dilaporkan memusnahkan 50 buah rumah.
Disebabkan gangguan kuasa dan berpuluh-puluh kegagalan penjana ambulans terpaksa untuk memindahkan lebih daripada 200 pesakit dari dua Manhattan hospital Sloan Kettering dan Mt. Sinai hospital. Awal letupan berlaku di sebuah stesen kuasa Edison Con di Manhattan, New York, meninggalkan hampir 2 juta New York tanpa kuasa.
Orang mengambil gambar banjir Kedai Plaza dalam One New York Plaza selepas Taufan Sandy di New York Oktober 30, 2012. (People take pictures of the flooded Plaza Shops under One New York Plaza in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York October 30, 2012. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
Hurricane hammers NY: 10 dead, houses destroyed
by fire, freak floods in subway . . .
Explosions, fires, and floods have devastated New York, killing at least ten people statewide. As Hurricane Sandy hit the city it left over 50 houses ablaze, at least seven subway tunnels flooded and nearly 2 million New Yorkers without power. Parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island are underwater as hurricane Sandy passes over New York. Much of the city is now without power, and mass transit has been shut down until further notice.
Sporadic explosions could be heard throughout the city. Emergency 911 operators were receiving 10,000 calls per half hour, NYC Mayor’s Office reported. Downed power lines had sparked numerous fires that continue to engulf the city. First reports of major fire were coming in from the Rockaway Park area of Queens, New York. A few hours later, fire engulfed 15 houses in Breezy Point, Queens, and 190 firefighters were on site battling the blaze. Fire has reportedly destroyed 50 houses.
Due to power outages and generator failure dozens of ambulances had to evacuate more than 200 patients from two Manhattan hospitals to Sloan Kettering and Mt. Sinai hospitals. Earlier an explosion took place at a Con Edison power station in Manhattan, New York, leaving nearly 2 million New Yorkers without power.
Selepas banjir berikut Hurricaine Sandy pada 30 Oktober 2012 di Daerah Kewangan New York, Amerika Syarikat. (The aftermath of flooding following Hurricaine Sandy on October 30, 2012 in the Financial District of New York, United States. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
Jalan-jalan di New York dipenuhi dengan air banjir, yang menumpahkan ke dalam terowong bawah tanah NY dan tapak Pusat Dagangan Dunia. Menurut Pihak Berkuasa Pengangkutan Metropolitan New York ini adalah bencana alam terburuk dalam sejarah sistem kereta bawah tanah NYC. Sandy dihantar dalam lonjakan ribut rekod sebanyak 13.7 kaki (4.17m) ke Manhattan, banjir tujuh subway terowong New York. Dan ia boleh mengambil masa sehingga empat hari untuk mendapatkan air keluar dari NY subway terowong banjir, menurut Metro Jurucakap Pihak Berkuasa Transit Kevin Ortiz. Di Manhattan, pekerja utiliti terperangkap selama tiga jam oleh air banjir semakin meningkat di dalam pencawang kuasa dan terpaksa diselamatkan oleh anggota bomba dalam bot kembung.
Satu jalan banjir, yang disebabkan oleh Taufan Sandy, dilihat pada 29 Oktober, 2012, di Daerah Kewangan New York, Amerika Syarikat. (A flooded street, caused by Hurricane Sandy, is seen on October 29, 2012, in the Financial District of New York, United States. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
The streets of New York City filled with floodwater, which poured into NY’s subway tunnels and the World Trade Center site. According to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority this is worst disaster in the history of the NYC subway system. Sandy sent in a record storm surge of 13.7 feet (4.17m) into lower Manhattan, flooding seven New York subway tunnels. And it could take up to four days to get the water out of the flooded NY subway tunnels, according to Metro Transit Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz. In lower Manhattan, utility workers were trapped for three hours by rising floodwaters inside a power substation and had to be rescued by firefighters in inflatable boats.
Satu jalan dibanjiri dalam seksyen Dumbo Brooklyn dilihat selepas bandar membangkitkan kesan Taufan Sandy pada 30 Oktober, 2012 di New York, Amerika Syarikat. (A flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn is viewed after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in New York, United States. (pencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
Seorang pengawal keselamatan berjalan melalui jalan yang banjir di daerah kewangan Manhattan, New York Oktober 30, 2012. (A security guard walks through a flooded street in the financial district of Manhattan, New York October 30, 2012. (Reuters/Adrees Latif)
Pelanggan dan menaiki kakitangan yang keluar Taufan Sandy bersama-sama dengan cahaya lilin di Greenwich Village restaurant French Roast di New York, 30 Oktober, 2012. (Customers and staff ride out Hurricane Sandy together by candle light at the Greenwich Village restaurant French Roast in New York, October 30, 2012. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
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