Fox News: Hurricane Sandy’s Expected to Bring Life Threatening Storm Surge

From Fox News. Very scary stuff. Pray for the folks involved and the land.

The Eastern Seaboard braced Monday for the full impact of Hurricane Sandy as it barreled toward shore packing 85-mph winds and an 11-foot storm surge that forecasters called “life-threatening.”

The 900-mile wide storm’s front edge sent tide-enhanced surges over boardwalks from Delaware to New York a full 12 hours before Sandy’s eye was to make landfall. Widespread evacuations along the coast were ordered, mass transit was shut down in major metropolitan areas and some 60 million people live in the path of the mega-storm and many likely face power outages in the coming hours and days.

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