Ghost city: ‘Post-apocalyptic stillness as New York braces for storm’ (PHOTOS) . . .

Guni pasir menyekat pintu masuk di New York Stock Exchange di pusat bandar Manhattan sebagai Taufan Sandy membuat pendekatan di New York Oktober 29, 2012 (Sandbags block the entrance of the New York Stock Exchange in downtown Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy made its approach in New York October 29, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)

Bandar hantu: 'Post-dahsyat kesunyian sebagai 

pendakap New York untuk ribut' (PHOTOS). . .

By 1WC’sChannel  (15, Dz ‘Hijjah1433), Wednesday 31, October  2012

Ketibaan pasti Taufan Sandy menyaksikan banyak bahagian New York bertukar menjadi bandar hantu. Pihak berkuasa mengarahkan penutupan kebanyakan garisan transit awam dan lebuh raya utama, dan membantu penduduk untuk mengosongkan bandar. Dalam apa yang kelihatan seperti adegan dari filem pasca-dahsyat Hollywood, Times Square stesen metro sepenuhnya ditinggalkan.

The imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy saw many parts of New York turned into a ghost town. Authorities ordered the closing of most public transit lines and major highways, and are helping residents to evacuate the city. In what looks like a scene from a post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie, the Times Square metro station is completely deserted.

Times Square (Metropolitan Transportation Authorit /Aaron Donovan)

Ikonik New York Grand Central Station - sering digunakan dalam filem-filem blockbuster - juga telah mudah tersilap bagi peringkat.

New York’s iconic Grand Central Station – often used in blockbuster movies – could also have been easily mistaken for a stage.

Grand Central Terminal (Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan)

Lebih 375,000 orang telah melarikan diri kawasan-kawasan rendah di bandar, dan kira-kira 70 pusat perlindungan kecemasan telah ditubuhkan untuk membantu dipindahkan. Mereka yang tidak boleh dipengaruhi secara langsung oleh Sandy masih silap pada sebelah berhati-hati. Penduduk di sepanjang Pantai Timur bergegas ke kedai untuk merebut bekalan kecemasan, meninggalkan rak ramai yang benar-benar kosong. Dalam masa beberapa jam keadaan kecemasan yang diumumkan secara rasmi, stesen gas banyak dilaporkan kehabisan bahan api.

Tabir yang berlaku di dalam dan sekitar New York dan bandar-bandar lain di sepanjang Pantai Timur mungkin kelihatan seperti sesuatu daripada filem bencana, tetapi satu kenyataan rasmi nasihat oleh Perkhidmatan Cuaca Kebangsaan mengungguli senarai bagi penghebatan. Amaran mengingatkan penduduk untuk mengambil nasihat serius, dan bercakap terus kepada apa-apa yang mungkin berfikir sebaliknya: "Jika anda keberatan untuk berpindah, dan anda tahu seseorang yang menunggang keluar ribut 1962 di pulau-pulau penghalang, meminta mereka jika mereka boleh melakukannya sekali lagi, "kata kenyataan itu membaca, merujuk kepada Ribut Besar Atlantik tahun 1962 yang mengorbankan 40 orang dan mencederakan lebih 1,000 orang lain.

Mesej pergi dengan pengakuan seorang penuh semangat untuk mempertimbangkan kasih-sayang seseorang, dan pekerja menyelamat yang mungkin perlu untuk mendapatkan anda, atau mayat anda. Satu meteorologi juga menerbitkan maklumat hubungan peribadi beliau, berkata dia akan menjadi gembira untuk menjawab banjir telefon kemarahan panggilan jika amaran beliau membuktikan tidak berasas.

Times Square (Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan)

Over 375,000 people have fled the low-lying areas of the city, and around 70 emergency shelters were established to help evacuees. Those who may not be directly affected by Sandy still erred on the side of caution. Residents along the East Coast rushed to stores to snap up emergency supplies, leaving many shelves completely bare. Within hours of a state of emergency being officially announced, many gas stations were reportedly running out of fuel.

The scenes unfolding in and around New York and other cities along the East Coast may look like something from a disaster movie, but an official advisory statement by the National Weather Service topped the list for hyperbole. The warning reminded residents to take the advisory seriously, and spoke directly to any who might think otherwise: “If you are reluctant to evacuate, and you know someone who rode out the 1962 storm on the barrier islands, ask them if they could do it again,” the statement read, referring to the Great Atlantic Storm of 1962 which killed 40 people and injured over 1,000 others.

The message went on with an impassioned plea to consider one’s loved ones, and the rescue workers who might have to retrieve you, or your corpse. One meteorologist even published his personal contact information, saying he’d be glad to answer a flood of angry phone calls if his warnings prove to be unfounded.

Grand Central Terminal (Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan)

Times Square (Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan)

Grand Central Terminal (Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan)

The last train to leave Grand Central Terminal (Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan)

Sebuah Lembaga Pengangkutan Metropolitan (MTA) pekerja menunggu untuk salah satu pusat bandar terakhir 4 kereta api bawah tanah di New York Oktober 28, 2012 (A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) employee waits for one of the last downtown 4 subway trains in New York October 28, 2012 (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Pita Awas meliputi pintu masuk ke Stesen Subway Times Square di New York Oktober 28, 2012 (Caution tape covers the entrance to the Times Square Subway Station in New York October 28, 2012 (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

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Sixty million at risk as deadly 'Frankenstorm' Sandy triggers mass evacuations . . .

Rakyat berdiri di atas Pier Ocean City Music menonton melayari berat yang disebabkan oleh Taufan Sandy, pada 28 Oktober, 2012 di Ocean City, New Jersey (People stand on the Ocean City Music Pier watching heavy surf caused by Hurricane Sandy, on October 28, 2012 in Ocean City, New Jersey (Mark Wilson/Getty Image/FP)

60 juta berisiko sebagai maut 'Frankenstorm' Sandy mencetuskan pemindahan jisim. . .

By 1WC’sChannel  (15, Dz ‘Hijjah1433), Wednesday 31, October  2012

The 'Sandy Frankenstorm' telah bersedia untuk menjadi yang belum pernah berlaku dalam saiz sekali ia mencecah tanah besar Amerika Syarikat malam Isnin. Berpuluh-puluh berjuta-juta orang boleh terjejas sebagai taufan gabungan mengakibatkan mala malapetaka dari Pantai Timur ke Great Lakes pada minggu Halloween. Semakin buruk amaran angin kuat, gangguan kuasa, banjir yang meluas, hujan lebat dan walaupun salji sedang dibunyikan di New York dan lain-lain pusat-pusat penduduk utama sebagai Taufan Sandy terus berjalan dari Caribbean.

Presiden Obama telah menandatangani pengisytiharan darurat bagi negeri-negeri New York dan Massachusetts dan District of Columbia pada petang Ahad. Peramal berkata Sandy ditetapkan untuk mengubah ke dalam "ribut super," sebagai ribut tropika bergabung dengan ribut musim sejuk dan depan sejuk, mengancam sehingga 12 inci hujan di beberapa kawasan dan salji berat pedalaman. "Kami sedang melihat kesan lebih daripada 50 hingga 60 juta orang," kata Louis Uccellini, kepala ramalan alam sekitar bagi National Oceanic dan Atmosfera Pentadbiran.

Tetapkan untuk mendekati pantai negeri-negeri pertengahan Atlantik oleh Isnin, Sandy adalah mungkin untuk membuat pendaratan di kawasan metropolitan New York, rumah kepada kira-kira 22 juta orang, pada malam Isnin. Angin berterusan ribut Kategori 1 sebanyak 75 kilometer sejam adalah apa-apa yang luar biasa, tetapi dengan taufan angin mencapai 105 kilometer dari pusat dan lemah tenaga angin ribut tropika memperluaskan 700 batu, peramal di pinggir mengenai kesan potensi.

Badai kuat dijangka untuk menghulurkan jauh di pedalaman Pennsylvania. "Ini adalah angin hanya menakjubkan di segi kelajuan tinggi mereka. Saya tidak boleh ingat pernah melihat ramalan model seperti medan angin luas lahan masih cukup luas dengan nilai-nilai yang begitu tinggi untuk sekian lama masa. Kami bidang baru di sini, "meteorologi Perkhidmatan Cuaca Kebangsaan di Washington agensi, DC/Baltimore pejabat berkata pada malam Sabtu."Saiz ini (Sandy) sahaja, yang menjejaskan kawasan yang ramai penduduknya, akan menjadi sejarah membuat," kata Jeff Masters, seorang pakar taufan yang menulis blog Cuaca untuk Underground.pact.

Imej ini yang diperolehi pada 28 Oktober, 2012 dari University of Wisconsin'd Angkasa Pusat Sains dan Kejuruteraan, menunjukkan Taufan Sandy luar pantai Timur Amerika Syarikat.  (This image obtained on October 28, 2012 from the University of Wisconsin'd Space Science and Engineering Center, shows Hurricane Sandy off the US East coast (AFP PHOTO/UW-SSEC)

Sixty million at risk as deadly 'Frankenstorm' Sandy triggers mass evacuations . . .

The ‘Frankenstorm’ Sandy is set to be unprecedented in size once it hits the US mainland Monday night. Tens of millions of people could be affected as the hybrid hurricane wreaks havoc from the East Coast to the Great Lakes on Halloween week. Increasingly dire warnings of powerful winds, power outages, widespread flooding, torrential downpours and even snow are being sounded in New York and other major population centers as Hurricane Sandy continues its trek up from the Caribbean.

President Obama signed an emergency declaration for the states of New York and Massachusetts and District of Columbia on Sunday evening. Forecasters said Sandy is set to transform into "super storm," as the tropical storm merges with a winter storm and a cold front, threatening up to 12 inches of rainfall in some areas and heavy snow inland. "We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," says Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Set to approach the coasts of the mid-Atlantic states by Monday, Sandy is likely to make landfall in the New York metropolitan area, home to about 22 million people, on Monday night. The Category 1 storm’s sustained winds of 75 mile per hour are nothing extraordinary, but with hurricane force winds reaching out 105 miles from its center and weaker tropical storm-force winds extending 700 miles, forecasters are on edge about its potential impact.

The powerful gusts are expected to stretch as far inland as Pennsylvania. “These winds are just amazing in terms of their high speed. I cannot recall ever seeing model forecasts of such an expansive areal wind field with values so high for so long a time. We are breaking new ground here,” a National Weather Service meteorologist in the agency’s Washington, DC/Baltimore office said on Saturday night.  "The size of this [Sandy] alone, affecting a heavily populated area, is going to be history making," said Jeff Masters, a hurricane specialist who writes a blog for Weather Underground.

Tanda berbunyi "Lautan Bahaya Tertutup" di pintu masuk ke pantai, kerana menghampiri Taufan Sandy, pada 28 Oktober, 2012 di Ocean City, New Jersey. (A sign reads "Danger Ocean Closed" at the entrance to the beach, due to approaching Hurricane Sandy, on October 28, 2012 in Ocean City, New Jersey (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Mereka jauh dari kawasan costal masih menyebabkan penggera, sebagai peramal meramalkan bahawa pedalaman banjir daripada luruan ribut boleh menimbulkan risiko yang lebih besar daripada angin. Pegawai Utiliti juga telah memberi amaran bahawa alasan tepu hujan boleh menghantar pokok yang jatuh ke dalam barisan kuasa, meninggalkan penduduk di rumah tanpa elektrik selama beberapa hari. Pegawai telah menggesa penduduk untuk menyimpan makanan, air dan bateri, dengan kedai-kedai runcit yang dibanjiri menjangkakan potensi gangguan kuasa.

Datuk Bandar New York Michael Bloomberg mengarahkan pemindahan mandatori kawasan-kawasan rendah Gotham, rumah kepada kira-kira 375,000 orang dalam jumlah. "Jika anda tidak berpindah, anda bukan sahaja membahayakan nyawa anda, anda juga membahayakan kehidupan balas pertama yang akan untuk menyelamatkan anda," Bloomberg berkata pada sidang akhbar Ahad. Sistem sekolah di bandar juga akan ditutup pada hari Isnin, terus Datuk Bandar. New York Pihak Berkuasa Pengangkutan Metropolitan (MTA) sebelum ini telah menyatakan bahawa Gabenor New York Andrew Cuomo telah mengarahkan "satu penutupan teratur dan penggantungan semua kereta api bawah tanah, bas dan perkhidmatan komuter" permulaan pada 7 petang Ahad.

Cuomo juga berkata keputusan untuk menutup jambatan dan terowong di negeri ini akan dibuat berdasarkan kes demi kes. Bandar ditutup bawah tanah sebelum Taufan Irene tahun lepas, dengan kajian Universiti Columbia meramalkan bahawa lonjakan Irene hanya satu kaki lebih tinggi boleh telah ditutup Manhattan. Amaran nyata Bloomberg kepada penduduk mengenai pemindahan mungkin telah didorong oleh kebimbangan bahawa puas hati telah ditetapkan dalam apabila Taufan Irene ternyata menjadi jauh lebih lemah daripada mulanya diramalkan.

Irene, yang melanda timur Amerika Syarikat pada bulan Ogos 2011, adalah bertanggungjawab bagi 56 kematian dan $ 15600000000 dolar dalam kerosakan, menjadikan ia ribut kelima costliest dalam sejarah negara. "Perkhidmatan Cuaca Kebangsaan percaya terdapat potensi yang semakin meningkat untuk angin kencang, banjir pantai dan hujan lebat di seluruh kawasan yang luas untuk tempoh yang panjang masa Ahad melalui Selasa," kata Howard Glaser, pengarah New York Negeri Operasi.

Bersebelahan di New Jersey, beratus-ratus penduduk pesisir mula bergerak pedalaman selepas Gabenor Chris Christie mengisytiharkan darurat pada hari Sabtu. Sedozen kasino Atlantic City telah ditutup berikutan perisytiharan itu, sebagai hab perjudian terletak di pulau penghalang. Penduduk hampir 40,000 pekan ini akan dipindahkan Ahad, pegawai bandar raya berkata. Atlantic City adalah berkemungkinan banjir, sebagai Peramal Khidmat Negara Cuaca di New Jersey meramalkan "arus perdana banjir besar utk Selasa melalui banyak minggu."

Those far away from costal areas still have cause for alarm, as forecasters predict that inland flooding from the storm surge could pose a much greater risk than the winds. Utilities officials have also warned that rain-saturated grounds could send trees plummeting into power lines, leaving residents at home without electricity for days. Officials have urged residents to stock up on food, water and batteries, with grocery stores being swamped in anticipation of the potential power outages.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation of Gotham's low-lying areas, home to some 375,000 people in total. "If you don't evacuate, you are not only endangering your life, you are also endangering the lives of the first responders who are going in to rescue you," Bloomberg said at a news conference Sunday.  The city's school system will also be closed on Monday, the mayor continued. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had previously noted that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had directed "an orderly shutdown and suspension of all subway, bus and commuter railroad service" beginning at  7 pm Sunday.

Cuomo also said the decision to shut down the state's bridges and tunnels would be made on a case-by-case basis. The city closed the subways before Hurricane Irene last year, with a Columbia University study predicting that an Irene surge just one foot higher could have shut down lower Manhattan. Bloomberg's stark warning to residents regarding evacuation might have been spurred by fears that complacency had set in once Hurricane Irene turned out to be far weaker than initially predicted.

Irene, which struck the eastern US in August 2011, was responsible for 56 deaths and $15.6 billion dollars in damage, making it the fifth costliest storm in the country's history. "The National Weather service believes there is increasing potential for high winds, coastal flooding and heavy rains across a broad area for a lengthy period of time Sunday through Tuesday," said Howard Glaser, director of New York State Operations.

Next door in New Jersey, hundreds of coastal residents started moving inland after Governor Chris Christie declared a state of emergency on Saturday. A dozen Atlantic City casinos were closed following the declaration, as the gambling hub is located on a barrier island. The town’s nearly 40,000 residents will be evacuated Sunday, city officials said. Atlantic City is likely to flood, as National Weather Service Forecasters in New Jersey predicted “larger mainstream flooding for Tuesday through much of the week.” 

Seorang lelaki surfs sebagai Hurrican Sandy pendekatan pada 28 Oktober, 2012 di Long Beach, New York (A man surfs as Hurrican Sandy approaches on October 28, 2012 in Long Beach, New York (Mike Stobe/Getty Images/AFP)

Sebagai 08:00 EST, Taufan Sandy terletak kira-kira 395 kilometer selatan New York dan bergerak lebih selari Atlantik ke pantai pada klip sebanyak 14 mph. Ia dijangka membuat giliran tajam barat ke arah pantai pada malam Ahad. Sandy dijangka untuk mengubah ke dalam "satu taufan yang besar dan sengit selepas tropika kerana ia bertukar ke arah barat laut," Alam Sekitar Kanada berkata awal pagi Ahad.

"Ia adalah mustahil bahawa peralihan ini dapat memperhebatkan ribut sedikit lagi sebelum bergerak pedalaman tempat di sepanjang New Jersey pantai lewat malam Isnin atau Selasa pagi," agensi terus. "Ramai sebagai 23 juta Kanada berdiri akan terjejas oleh ribut ini. Itu 70% peratus daripada negara ini," meteorologi Mark Robinson pada Rangkaian Cuaca memberi amaran pada hari Sabtu. Sandy telah pun dirasai di laluan kempen, sebagai Presiden Barack Obama telah dipaksa untuk membatalkan berhenti kempen di Virginia pada hari Isnin dan Colorado pada Selasa, manakala pencabar Republikan Mitt Romney membatalkan semua acara yang dijadualkan di Virginia dan berpindah ke negeri swing penting Ohio sebaliknya, di mana beliau kini leher dan leher dengan presiden.

Obama berkata beliau telah bekerja dengan pegawai-pegawai negeri dan tempatan untuk memastikan mereka mempunyai sumber yang mencukupi untuk bersedia untuk bencana potensi, yang boleh meninggalkan berjuta-juta rakyat Amerika di belakangnya. Agensi Pengurusan Kecemasan Persekutuan readying air, makanan, selimut dan sumber-sumber lain di pangkalan sokongan, rumah Putih mengumumkan pada hari Sabtu.

As of 8:00 am EST, Hurricane Sandy was located roughly 395 miles south of New York City and is moving over the Atlantic parallel to the coast at a clip of 14 mph. It is expected to make a sharp westerly turn towards the coast on Sunday night. Sandy is expected to transform into “a large and intense post-tropical cyclone as it turns toward the northwest," Environment Canada said early Sunday morning.

"It is possible that this transition could intensify the storm slightly further prior to moving inland somewhere along the New Jersey coast late Monday night or Tuesday morning," the agency continued. "As many as 23 million Canadians stand to be affected by this storm. That's 70% of the country," meteorologist Mark Robinson at The Weather Network warned on Saturday. Sandy has already been felt on the campaign trail, as President Barack Obama was forced to cancel campaign stops in Virginia on Monday and Colorado on Tuesday, while Republican contender Mitt Romney canceled all his scheduled events in Virginia and moved to the crucial swing state of Ohio instead, where he is currently neck and neck with the president.

Obama said he was working with state and local officials to make sure they had ample resources to prepare for the potential disaster, which could leave millions of Americans in its wake. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is readying water, meals, blankets and other resources at support bases, the White house announced on Saturday.

Satu tanda mengumumkan "Bahaya Rip Semasa" sebagai Sandy pendekatan Taufan pada 28 Oktober, 2012 di Atlantic City, New Jersey (A sign announces "Danger Rip Current" as Hurricane Sandy approaches on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Pemuat membuat halangan pasir di pantai untuk membantu lonjakan ribut berhenti daripada mendekati Taufan Sandy pada 28 Oktober, 2012 di Atlantic City, New Jersey (A loader makes a sand barrier on the beach to help stop storm surge from approaching Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Carpenters Frank Jiacopello (L) dan Ron Skinner meletakkan papan lapis atas pintu di Kasino di titian Bally sebagai Sandy pendekatan Taufan pada 28 Oktober, 2012 di Atlantic City, New Jersey (Carpenters Frank Jiacopello (L) and Ron Skinner put plywood over the doors at the Bally's Casino on the boardwalk as Hurricane Sandy approaches on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey (Mark Wilson/ GettyImage /AFP)

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Frankenstorm: ‘Hurricane Sandy to strike US after killing over 40 in Caribbean’ (PHOTOS, VIDEO) . . .

Seorang wanita kelihatan dari pintu rumahnya pada kemusnahan yang disebabkan oleh taufan Sandy di Cueto, Bayamo, 750 km timur Havana, pada 25 Oktober 2012. (A woman looks from the door of her house at the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy in Cueto, Bayamo, 750 km east of Havana, on October 25, 2012. (AFP Photo)

Hujan lebat dari Taufan Sandy menyebabkan Croix de Misi sungai membengkak ke tahap yang mengancam untuk membanjiri rumah-rumah di sepanjang tebing di Port-au-Prince Oktober 25, 2012. (Heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy causes the Croix de Mission river to swell to levels that threaten to flood the homes along its bank in Port-au-Prince October 25, 2012. (Reuters/Swoan Parker)

‘Frankenstorm': Taufan Sandy untuk menyerang Amerika Syarikat selepas membunuh lebih 40 di Caribbean’ . . .
By 1WC’sChannel  (14, Dz ‘Hijjah1433), Tuesday 30, October  2012

Taufan Sandy telah melanda melalui Caribbean, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 43 dan meninggalkan jejak kemusnahan di belakangnya. Sebagai kemajuan ribut di pantai Amerika Syarikat, kebimbangan memuncak bahawa ia boleh bergabung dengan sistem cuaca lain, mewujudkan ribut super. Sandy berkumpul kelajuan dan kekuatan di Laut Caribbean, mengoyak melalui Bahamas pada angin mencapai sehingga 180 batu sejam. Cuba telah dipukul keras oleh Sandy pada hari Khamis, dengan sekurang-kurangnya 11 orang terbunuh dan satu lagi mati 9 di Haiti.

Satu orang juga dibunuh di Jamaica oleh batu-batu jatuh selepas Sandy melanda pulau itu pada Rabu. Lebih 50,000 orang lari rumah mereka di Cuba sebagai angin ribut mengoyakkan bumbung luar bangunan dan merobohkan talian kuasa. Kemudahan tahanan Amerika Syarikat di Teluk Guantanamo juga terjejas, menyebabkan penempatan semula beberapa banduan ke lokasi yang lebih selamat. Cuba berkuasa berkata bahawa Sandy adalah ribut dahsyat untuk menyerang negara ini sejak Julai 2005, apabila Taufan Dennis membunuh 16 orang dan menyebabkan $ 2.4 bilion dalam kerosakan.

Hurricane Sandy has swept through the Caribbean, killing at least 43 and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. As the storm advances on US shores, fears are mounting that it could merge with another weather system, creating a super-storm. Sandy gathered speed and strength in the Caribbean Sea, tearing through the Bahamas at winds reaching up to 180 miles per hour. Cuba was hit hard by Sandy on Thursday, with at least 11 people killed and another 9 dead in Haiti.

One person was also killed in Jamaica by falling rocks after Sandy swept across the island on Wednesday. Over 50,000 people fled their homes in Cuba as storm winds ripped roofs off buildings and tore down power lines. The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was also hit, prompting the relocation of some prisoners to a more secure location. Cuban authorities said that Sandy was the deadliest storm to strike the country since July 2005, when Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people and caused $2.4 billion in damage.

Seorang lelaki berjalan di tengah-tengah kemusnahan yang disebabkan oleh taufan Sandy di Cueto, Bayamo, 750 km timur Havana, pada 25 Oktober 2012. (A man walks amid the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy in Cueto, Bayamo, 750 km east of Havana, on October 25, 2012. (AFP Photo)

Ribut mengerikan bahagian (A storm of monstrous proportions) . . .

Sandy adalah kerana untuk menyerang Amerika Syarikat pada petang Jumaat, dengan pakar-pakar yang meningkatkan kebimbangan ribut boleh membesarkan kuasa dan menyebabkan kerosakan yang ketara. Peramal berkata ada kemungkinan bahawa Sandy boleh bergabung dengan sistem cuaca bermusim, mewujudkan ribut hibrid yang boleh membinasakan Pantai Timur Amerika Syarikat. "tahap tinggi menyekat dari timur Amerika Utara keseluruhan merentasi Atlantik Lembangan dijangka membenarkan penggabungan ini luar biasa untuk mengambil tempat," peramal di Pusat Taufan Kebangsaan Amerika Syarikat berkata.

Sandy is due to strike the US on Friday afternoon, with experts raising concerns the storm could magnify in power and cause significant damage. Forecasters said there is a possibility that Sandy could combine with a seasonal weather system, creating a hybrid storm that could ravage the East Coast of the US. “The high degree of blocking from eastern North America across the entire Atlantic Basin is expected to allow this unusual merger to take place," forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center said.

Haiti perjalanan jalan dibanjiri selepas Taufan Sandy Oktober 25, 2012 di Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Haitians travel a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy October 25, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AFP Photo/Thony Belizaire)

Jeff Masters, seorang pakar taufan dengan swasta peramal Cuaca Underground menulis bahawa Sandy boleh menjadi "bilion dolar bencana" jika ia membuat pendaratan sepanjang Pantai Atlantik Tengah. "Dalam senario ini, Sandy akan dapat membawa angin berterusan berhampiran daya taufan lebih hamparan luas pantai yang ramai penduduknya," katanya. Dengan Halloween menghampiri di Amerika Syarikat, media telah menjenamakan 'Frankenstorm.' Sistem cuaca hibrid Washington telah menggesa penduduk Pantai Timur untuk memantau ramalan dan ambil  perhatian amaran cuaca dari pihak berkuasa tempatan pada hari-hari akan datang.

Jeff Masters, a hurricane specialist with private forecaster Weather Underground wrote that Sandy could be a “billion dollar disaster” if it makes landfall along the Mid-Atlantic Coast. "In this scenario, Sandy would be able to bring sustained winds near hurricane force over a wide stretch of heavily populated coast," he said. With Halloween approaching in the US, the media has branded the hybrid weather system ‘Frankenstorm.’ Washington has urged residents of the East Coast to monitor forecasts and heed weather warnings from local authorities in the days ahead.

Palang Merah mengedarkan bekalan untuk orang selepas Taufan Sandy Oktober 25, 2012 di Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (The Red Cross distributes supplies to people in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy October 25, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AFP Photo/Thony Belizaire)

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Taufan Sandy 29 October 2012 . . .

Taufan Sandy . . .

Taufan Sandy merupakan besar-besaran, lewat musim tropical cyclone  yang telah menjejas Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican Republic, dan Amerika Syarikat (United States),  dan kini mengancam Pantai Timur Amerika Syarikat (East Coast of the United States) dan Kanada Timur (Eastern Canada). Ribut tropika yang ke-18 tropika, ribut dinamakan 18, dan taufan 10 musim 2012 Atlantik taufan (2012 Atlantic hurricane season), Sandy dibangunkan dari gelombang elongated tropical wave  di barat Laut Caribbean (Caribbean Sea) pada 22 Oktober. Ia menjadi kemurungan tropika, cepat diperkukuhkan, dan telah dinaik taraf kepada ribut tropika enam jam kemudian. Sandy berpindah perlahan-lahan utara ke arah Greater Antilles dan secara beransur-ansur diperkukuhkan.

Pada 24 Oktober, Sandy telah dinaik taraf kepada taufan, sejurus sebelum membuat pendaratan di Jamaica. Setelah bergerak lebih jauh ke utara, Sandy semula memasuki air dan membuat pendaratan kedua di Cuba pada awal pagi Oktober 25 sebagai taufan Kategori 2. Pada lewat petang Oktober 25, Sandy melemahkan kekuatan Kategori 1; pada waktu awal Oktober 26, ia menuju utara melalui Bahamas. Sandy ringkas lemah kepada ribut tropika di waktu awal pagi Oktober 27, maka restrengthened kepada taufan Kategori 1 (Category 1 hurricane) kemudian bahawa pagi dan kekal kekuatan yang melalui malam Oktober 28. Pada 23:00 EDT pada 28 Oktober, Sandy melepasi Taufan Igor (Hurricane Igor) (2010) untuk menjadi taufan terbesar dalam sejarah Atlantik (largest hurricane in Atlantic history), dengan maksimum angin-kuasa angin diameter 930 batu (1500 km). Sejurus selepas tengah malam 29 Okt, Sandy berpaling ke utara. Sejurus sebelum 08:00, Sandy berpaling ke utara-barat laut dan mula membuat pendekatan yang dijangkakan ke arah pantai Amerika Syarikat.

Satu gelombang tropika telah bergerak ke arah barat melalui Laut Caribbean timur pada 19 Oktober 2012. Ia mempunyai kawasan tekanan rendah dilanjutkan, dan keadaan dijangka beransur-ansur menjadi lebih baik untuk pembangunan. Pada 20 Oktober, sistem menjadi lebih teratur, dan Amerika Syarikat Pusat Taufan Kebangsaan (NHC) menilai potensi yang tinggi untuk ia menjadi siklon tropika dalam tempoh 48 jam. Pada hari berikutnya, perolakan bersekutu, atau ribut petir, telah menjadi minimum, walaupun tekanan barometer di kawasan itu kekal rendah, yang digemari pembangunan. Ribut petir secara beransur-ansur meningkat, manakala sistem perlahan dan menjadi hampir pegun lebih Caribbean barat. Pada 1500 UTC pada 22 Oktober, NHC memulakan nasihat Lapan belas Kemurungan Tropika kira-kira 320 batu (515 km) selatan Kingston, Jamaica. Ini adalah berdasarkan pemerhatian permukaan dan imejan satelit, yang menunjukkan sistem telah dibangunkan perolakan cukup dianjurkan untuk diklasifikasikan.

Apabila lekukan tropika terbentuk, ia adalah di kawasan arus stereng lemah selatan rabung melanjutkan ke timur dari Teluk Mexico. Rendah angin ricih dan panas suhu permukaan laut kondusif kepada pengukuhan dan pesat pendalaman. Lewat pada 22 Oktober, Taufan Hunters penerbangan diperhatikan angin 40 mph (64 km/h) dalam rainband, yang mendorong NHC untuk menaik taraf kemurungan Ribut Tropika Sandy. Aliran keluar meningkat, manakala suasana lembap membantu perolakan menganjurkan lagi. NHC menyatakan bahawa "masih hampir pegun sepanjang perairan hangat Laut Caribbean barat daya tidak adalah satu petanda yang baik untuk masa tahun ini." Namun, corak awan mulanya kekal sebahagian besarnya sama. Awal pada 24 Oktober mata mula membangunkan. Pada masa itu, Sandy telah terus bergerak ke arah utara, dilukis oleh palung menghampiri dari barat laut. Pada 11:00 EDT (1500 UTC) pada 24 Oktober, NHC dinaik taraf Sandy kepada status taufan selepas Pemburu Taufan diperhatikan penerbangan tahap angin 99 mph (159 km/h). Pada masa itu, Sandy adalah kira-kira 65 batu (105 km) selatan Kingston, Jamaica.

Pada kira-kira 3:00 EDT (1900 UTC) pada 24 Oktober, Sandy dibuat pendaratan berhampiran Kingston dengan angin kira-kira 80 mph (130 km/h) Hanya luar pesisir Cuba, Sandy pesat dipergiatkan ke taufan Kategori 2 pada skala Saffir-Simpson dengan 110 mph (175 km/h) angin. Tidak lama selepas itu di 01:25 EDT (0525 UTC), taufan melanda Cuba hanya barat Santiago de Cuba. Pada pendaratan, Sandy mempunyai mata yang jelas lebih 23 batu (37 km) diameter, dan angin tahap penerbangan mencapai 135 mph (216 km/h). Walaupun atas tanah, struktur merosot dan mata adalah tidak lagi kelihatan. Selepas Sandy keluar Cuba, udara kering dan ricih meningkat terhad aliran keluar dan menyebabkan struktur untuk menjadi tidak teratur. Satu rendah peringkat pertengahan ke atas Florida bertukar taufan ke arah utara-barat laut. Menjelang awal pada 26 Oktober, kebanyakan olakan sheared ke utara pusat, dan saiz ribut bertambah dengan banyak. Pada hari berikutnya, NHC mengatakan bahawa Sandy "menunjukkan ciri-ciri siklon hibrid . . . seperti frontallow satu tersumbat." Walau bagaimanapun, sistem mengekalkan teras haba panas, dan walaupun mph kuat 60 (95 km/h) ricih angin, taufan terus membangunkan ribut petir disebabkan kecapahan baik dari palung berhampiran; bekas yang sama bertukar Sandy ke arah timur laut. Pada 27 Oktober, Sandy ringkas lemah kepada ribut tropika, selepas udara kering menjadi sepenuhnya ditelan ke dalam peredaran pertengahan dan peringkat atasan. Kemudian hari itu, bagaimanapun, laporan angin dari Pemburu Taufan menunjukkan bahawa Sandy semula dipergiatkan ke dalam taufan.

Ribut maklumat semasa

Sehingga 8 pagi EDT (1200 UTC) Oktober 29, Taufan Sandy terletak dalam lingkungan 20 batu nautika sebanyak 35.9 ° N 70,5 ° W, kira-kira 265 batu (425 km) tenggara Atlantic City, New Jersey dan kira-kira 310 batu (505 km) selatan-tenggara New York. Maksimum angin berterusan adalah 75 knot (85 mph 140 km / h), dengan gusts kuat. Tekanan pusat minimum ialah 946 mbar (hPa; 27,94 inHg), dan sistem ini bergerak ke utara pada 17 kt (20 mph, 32 km / h).

Taufan angin kuasa melanjutkan sehingga kepada 175 batu (280 km) dari pusat Sandy, terutamanya di barat daya, dan kuasa ribut tropika angin sehingga 485 batu (780 km) dari pusat.

Untuk maklumat terkini rasmi lihat:

* terbaru Penasihat Awam NHC pada Taufan Sandy (latest Public Advisory on Hurricane Sandy)

* Ramalan NHC terbaru Perbincangan mengenai Taufan Sandy (latest Forecast Discussion on Hurricane Sandy)

Sandy 2012 Oct 28/16.00 (UTC)

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy is a massive, late-season tropical cyclone that has affected Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, and is currently threatening the East Coast of the United States and Eastern Canada. The 18th tropical cyclone, 18th named storm, and 10th hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy developed from an elongated tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22. It became a tropical depression, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to a tropical storm six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually strengthened.

On October 24, Sandy was upgraded to a hurricane, shortly before making landfall in Jamaica. Upon moving farther north, Sandy re-entered water and made its second landfall in Cuba during the early morning of October 25 as a Category 2 hurricane. During the late evening of October 25, Sandy weakened to Category 1 strength; in the early hours of October 26, it headed north through the Bahamas. Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm in the early morning hours of October 27, then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane later that morning and remained that strength through the evening of October 28. At 11:00 p.m. EDT on October 28, Sandy surpassed Hurricane Igor (2010) to become the largest hurricane in Atlantic history, with a maximum gale-force wind diameter of 930 mi (1500 km).  Shortly after midnight October 29, Sandy turned to the north. Just before 8:00 a.m., Sandy turned to the north-northwest and started to make its expected approach towards the U.S. coast.

A tropical wave was moving westward through the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 19, 2012.  It had an extended low pressure area, and conditions were expected to gradually become more favorable for development.  On October 20, the system became better organized, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) assessed a high potential for it to become a tropical cyclone within 48 hours.  By the next day, the associated convection, or thunderstorms, had become minimal, although barometric pressure in the area remained low, which favored development.  The thunderstorms gradually increased, while the system slowed and became nearly stationary over the western Caribbean.  At 1500 UTC on October 22, the NHC initiated advisories on Tropical Depression Eighteen about 320 mi (515 km) south of Kingston, Jamaica. This was based on surface observations and satellite imagery, which indicated the system had developed enough organized convection to be classified.

When the tropical depression formed, it was in an area of weak steering currents south of a ridge extending eastward from the Gulf of Mexico. Low wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures were conducive to strengthening and rapid deepening. Late on October 22, a Hurricane Hunters flight observed winds of 40 mph (64 km/h) in a rainband, which prompted NHC to upgrade the depression to Tropical Storm Sandy.  Outflow increased, while moist atmosphere helped the convection organize further. NHC noted that "remaining nearly stationary over the warm waters of southwestern Caribbean Sea is never a good sign for this time of year."  Still, the cloud pattern initially remained largely the same.  Early on October 24, an eye began developing. By that time, Sandy was moving steadily northward, drawn by a trough approaching from the northwest.  At 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on October 24, the NHC upgraded Sandy to hurricane status after the Hurricane Hunters observed flight-level winds of 99 mph (159 km/h). At the time, Sandy was about 65 mi (105 km) south of Kingston, Jamaica.

At about 3:00 p.m. EDT (1900 UTC) on October 24, Sandy made landfall near Kingston with winds of about 80 mph (130 km/h)  Just offshore Cuba, Sandy rapidly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with 110 mph (175 km/h) winds.  Shortly thereafter at 1:25 a.m. EDT (0525 UTC), the hurricane struck Cuba just west of Santiago de Cuba.  At landfall, Sandy had a well-defined eye of over 23 mi (37 km) in diameter, and flight-level winds reached 135 mph (216 km/h).  While over land, the structure deteriorated and the eye was no longer visible. After Sandy exited Cuba, dry air and increasing shear restricted the outflow and caused the structure to become disorganized.  A mid-level low over Florida turned the hurricane toward the north-northwest. By early on October 26, most of the convection was sheared to the north of the center, and the size of the storm increased greatly.  By the next day, the NHC remarked that Sandy was "showing characteristics of a hybrid cyclone..  like an occluded frontallow." However, the system maintained a warm thermal core, and despite strong 60 mph (95 km/h) wind shear, the hurricane continued to develop thunderstorms due to good divergence from a nearby trough; the same trough turned Sandy toward the northeast.  On October 27, Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm, after dry air became fully ingested into the mid- and upper-level circulations. Later that day, however, wind reports from the Hurricane Hunters indicated that Sandy re-intensified into a hurricane.

Current storm information

As of 8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC) October 29, Hurricane Sandy is located within 20 nautical miles of 35.9°N 70.5°W, about 265 mi (425 km) southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey and about 310 mi (505 km) south-southeast of New York City. Maximum sustained winds are 75 knots (85 mph, 140 km/h), with stronger gusts. Minimum central pressure is 946 mbar (hPa; 27.94 inHg), and the system is moving north at 17 kt (20 mph, 32 km/h).

Hurricane force winds extend up to 175 miles (280 km) from the center of Sandy, primarily to the southwest, and tropical storm force winds up to 485 miles (780 km) from the center.

For latest official information see:

The NHC's latest Public Advisory on Hurricane Sandy

The NHC's latest Forecast Discussion on Hurricane Sandy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCslidh7w9w&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZFlxuU1FRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUZcvH7ppRo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nnisBSjKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIN6v9Dsuxs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcZbxtSwtuE

Cancer cells: Italian court rules ‘mobile phones can cause brain tumors’ . . .

Sel-sel kanser: Peraturan mahkamah Itali 'telefon bimbit boleh menyebabkan tumor otak'. . .

By 1WC’sChannel  (8, Dz ‘Qaidah 1433), monday October 22, September  2012

Mahkamah Agung Itali telah memutuskan terdapat kaitan sebab-sebab akibat antara penggunaan telefon bimbit dan ketumbuhan otak dalam kes mercu tanda. Pemerintah telah menetapkan duluan undang-undang yang berpotensi mencetuskan perhatian lambakan tindakan undang-undang. Innocente Marcolini, seorang ahli perniagaan 60 tahun bersara berhujah bahawa penggunaan berlebihan telefon bimbit beliau selama kira-kira 6 jam setiap hari selama 12 tahun menyebabkan tumor otak benigna yang kiri mukanya separuh lumpuh.

Mahkamah Itali memutuskan memihak kepada ahli perniagaan, mengakui bahawa terdapat "hubungan bersebab" antara penggunaan telefon dan pembangunan tumor. "Ini adalah penting bagi orang-orang yang sangat banyak. Saya mahu masalah ini menjadi awam kerana orang ramai masih tidak tahu risikonya," kata Marcolini Corriere della Sera. "Saya sentiasa mengguna telefon selama sekurang-kurangnya 5 atau 6 jam sehari Sentiasa dengan telefon bimbit ditekan ke telinga saya. "

Tumor Marcolini terletak pada saraf trigeminal, dekat kepada mana telefon bimbit beliau menyentuh kepalanya. Walaupun tumor bukan kanser, ia terancam hidupnya kerana ia boleh telah merebak ke arteri karotid dan menyekat salah satu saluran darah utama ke otak. Dalam kesnya, beliau berhujah bahawa sinaran elektromagnet yang dipancarkan oleh telefon bimbit boleh merosakkan sel-sel, menjadikan tumor lebih kerap berlaku.

Onkologi dan profesor alam sekitar mutagenesis Angelo Gino Levis, yang memberi keterangan semasa perbicaraan mahkamah, berkata bahawa keputusan itu adalah "amat penting". "Akhirnya korelasi telah diiktiraf secara rasmi antara gelombang elektromagnetik dan perkembangan tumor di sebalik anti-penggelisahpropaganda dan penyelidikan yang dibiayai oleh pengeluar telefon mudah alih, "Levis memberitahu Corriere. Beliau menegaskan bahawa selepas bekerja pada beberapa kajian kes hubungan antara penggunaan telefon bimbit dan peningkatan risiko tumor otak terbukti.

"Ia akan membuka, bukan jalan, tetapi lebuh raya kepada tindakan undang-undang oleh mangsa. Kami sedang mempertimbangkan tindakan kelas," Levis memberitahu akhbar UK The Sun. Pakar lain telah lebih berhati-hati terhadap kes itu. Silvio Garattini, Pengarah Institut Penyelidikan Farmakologi berkata bahawa pada masa ini tidak ada bukti konkrit yang membuktikan hubungan antara tumor dan penggunaan telefon bimbit. Garattini berkata "mahkamah berpihak dengan terkilan kerana mereka tidak pasti." pada masa ini, Pertubuhan Kesihatan SEDUNIA (WHO) mengklasifikasikan telefon bimbit sebagai "karsinogen "dan melonggokkan mereka ke dalam kategori yang sama seperti kopi dan racun perosak.

READ MORE/baca lanjut http://rt.com/news/italy-phone-causes-tumor-840/

Peraturan mahkamah Itali 'telefon bimbit boleh menyebabkan tumor otak' (Italian court rules ‘mobile phones can cause brain tumors)’

Cancer cells: Italian court rules ‘mobile phones can cause brain tumors’ . . .

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled there is a causal link between mobile phone use and brain tumors in a landmark case. The ruling has set a legal precedent that could potentially trigger a deluge of lawsuits. Innocente Marcolini, a 60-year-old retired businessman argued that the excessive use of his mobile phone for around six hours every day for 12 years caused a benign brain tumor that left his face partially paralyzed.

The Italian court ruled in the businessman’s favor, conceding that there is a “causal link” between phone use and the development of the tumor.  "This is significant for very many people. I wanted this problem to become public because many people still do not know the risks,” said Marcolini to Corriere della Sera. “I was always on the phone for at least five or six hours a day. Always with a mobile pressed to my ear.”

Marcolini’s tumor was located on the trigeminal nerve, close to where his cellphone touched his head. Although the tumor was non-cancerous, it endangered his life as it could have spread to the carotid artery and blocked one of the main blood vessels to the brain. In his case he argued that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellphones can damage cells, making tumors more likely to occur.

Oncologist and professor of environmental mutagenesis Angelo Gino Levis, who gave evidence during the court hearing, said that the ruling was “extremely important.” “Finally a correlation has been officially recognized between electromagnetic waves and development of tumors in spite of the anti-alarmist propaganda and research financed by mobile phone manufacturers,” Levis told the Corriere. He stressed that after working on several case studies the relationship between the use of mobile phones and the increased risk of brain tumors is proven.

"It'll open, not a road, but a motorway to legal actions by victims. We're considering a class action,” Levis told UK newspaper The Sun. Other experts have been more cautious over the case. Silvio Garattini, Director of the Institute of Pharmacological Research said that at the moment there is no concrete evidence that proves the link between tumors and cellphone use. Garattini said “the court sided with the aggrieved because they were uncertain.” Currently the World Health Organization classifies mobile phones as “carcinogens” and lumps them into the same category as coffee and pesticides.

PROTECT YOURSELF and your family! Cell phone radiation has been linked to cancer . . .

READ MORE/baca lanjut:  http://www.DisconnectFilm.com / http://www.EHTrust.org

Part 1,  Part 2,  Part 3,  Part 4,  Part 5 ,  Part 6,  Part 7

DOES CELL PHONE RADIATION CAUSE CANCER? How to protect your health http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqafAzugooY&feature=related

cell phone may cause brain cancer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_bUW3CmNg

Can Mobile Phones Cause Brain Tumors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bRoIIxQQA

Cell Phone Radiation Cause Brain Tumor (Radiation Meters) Cell Phone Radiation Cause Brain Tumor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVLLzUFWQQ

Long term, low level Wi-Fi exposure a concern: expert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi4NmQEsdg&feature=related