0.10.2012 |
Source:
Pravda.Ru
Source: Vesti.ru
Sandy continues to batter the US East
Coast. A quarter of the New York subway system has been flooded. A
frightening picture appeared on Twitter, which showed a shark swimming
in a flooded street in a residential area of the city. The super storm
has claimed at least 14 lives. The damage from the storm to the U.S.
economy may reach $10-20 billion, says RBC.
'The New York City subway system is 108
years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we
experienced last night,' said Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (MTA).
'Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our
entire transportation system, in every borough and county of the region.
It has brought down trees, ripped out power and inundated tunnels, rail
yards and bus depots,' he said.
The tunnels of seven lines of the New York subway have been flooded.
The hurricane, according to the latest
data, has killed 14 people in the states of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina and West Virginia, as well as in Canada's
Toronto. A few more people have been hospitalized. In total, the
disaster in the Caribbean basin and North America, has killed as many as
70 people.
The rise of the water level in the ocean
poses a threat to Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in the state of New
Jersey. If the water level continues to rise, it can damage the pumps,
which allow water to cool spent nuclear fuel, BBCRussian.com said.
An explosion occurred at an electrical
substation in New York, which is in the epicenter of the hurricane. More
than 5.5 million Americans have been left without electricity.
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