Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Monday evening, arriving ahead of schedule with a punch as powerful as feared.
The storm, with winds and driving rains that have already caused flooding up and down the Eastern Seaboard, made its heralded landfall near Atlantic City, N.J., around 8 p.m. Eastern time.
It arrived slightly earlier than forecasters had originally projected because it had picked up speed, moving at about 28 mph.
In many ways landfall was just a small mile-marker on what officials said Monday would be a relatively long and hazardous road. The cost of the damage was already in the billions of dollars, and the tab was running because the largest waves will come later this evening as the tide becomes high.
According to The Weather Channel Hurricane Sandy is going to be as bad as meteorologists have predicted it will be.Because many on the East Coast are expected to potentially lose power.
The Weather Channel has been live-streaming its round-the-clock television coverage online so that people can still keep up with the news on their mobile devices.
According to Bryan Norcross,
The Channel's Senior Hurricane Specialist, "Our goal has been to get people to appreciate the magnitude of the storm and try to prove to them that, based on everything we know, that this is going to be a system that is outside of their experience.
He adds that The Weather Channel has intentionally opted out of calling Sandy "Frankenstorm," saying, "Being cute about this storm is not the right idea."
Meanwhile, The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore, whose nickname is "The Hurricane King," tells The New York Observer, "This is the most nervous I've ever been about a storm. There's just too much uncertainty.
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Lets us hope and pray that this Hurricane Sandy go away,and disappear
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