NO NY TRADING TODAY AGAIN

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IS CLOSED TODAY TUE OCT 30,12 DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY. 

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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.


YESTERDAYS HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/10/updates-on-hurricane-sandy.html 

TODAYS HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES DAY 2


IN CANADA THERE IS 1 DEAD IN TORONTO FROM HURRICANE SANDY AND 10 DEAD IN THE USA.AT LEAST 70,000 IN CANADA ARE WITHOUT POWER AND AT LEAST 3 MILLION IN THE USA ARE WITHOUT POWER FROM SANDY.THERE SAYING THERE COULD BE 25 BILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES IN AMERICA FROM HURRICANE SANDY.

AS OF 5AM TUE OCT 30,12-13 DEAD IN AMERICA AND 1 DEAD IN CANADA AND STILL 6 MILLION WITHOUT POWER.ITS REPORTED THAT A DAM OR LEVEE HAS BROKEN IN NEW JERSEY.AND A THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE TO BE EVACUATED FROM 3 TOWNS. 

50 HOMES IN QUEENS NEW YORK HAVE BURNED TO THE GROUND AND ANOTHER 24 CURRENTLY BURNING AS A HYDRO LINE FELL AND STARTED THE FIRE WHICH WAS UNSTOPABLE DUE TO LOW WATER PRESSURE CAUSED BY HURRICANE SANDY,SO THE FIRE TRUCKS COULD NOT SHOOT THE WATER VERY FAR.

ITS 9:40AM AND THERE IS 7 MILLION WITHOUT POWER NOW.I THINK THE NEW JERSEY CURFEW IS OVER AND PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED BACK ON THE STREETS AGAIN.THAT NJ BREACHED LEVEE HAS CAUSED PEOPLE TO BE EVACUATED FROM 4 TOWNS NOW,NOT JUST 3.AT LEAST 16 PEOPLE ARE DEAD NOW FROM HURRICANE SANDY.AND IN NEW JERSEY-ATLANTIC CITY A TRUCK WAS COVERED HALF WAY UP WITH SEWAGE AS A SEWAGE PLANT OVER FLOWED.145,000 IN CANADA ARE WITHOUT POWER AS A RESULT OF HURRICANE SANDY.AT LEAST 80 HOMES HAVE BEEN BURNED DOWN IN QUEENS NOW.A BOAT SUNK AND A CARGO SHIP WAS FORCED ONTO SHORE IN NEW YORK I THINK IT WAS.7 SUBWAYS TUNNELS WERE FLOODED IN NEW YORK.A CRANE WAS PARTIALLY HANGING FROM THE TALLEST BUILDING IN NEW YORK.AND THE FORMER TWIN TOWERS SITE WAS FLOODED WITH WATER.AND IN WEST VIRGINIA A SNOW STORM WITH FEET OF SNOW PILED UP OCCURRED AS THE LOW CONVERGED WITH HURRICANE SANDY.NEW JERSEY SHORE IS JUST DEVASTATED FROM HURRICANE SANDY.A RECORD 13 FOOT WATER SURGE WAS RECORDED IN NEW YORK FROM HURRICANE SANDY THE HIGHEST IN HISTORY.THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS AROUND 11.5 FEET. 

ITS 1:12PM OCT 30,12 AND 29 PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN AMERICA AND 1 DEAD IN CANADA FROM HURRICANE SANDY ,THE 2 TROPICAL LOWS AND THE FULL MOON HIGH TIDES IN 23 STATES IN AMERICA AND NOT EXACT NUMBER KNOWN IN CANADA.THIS IS THE WORST POWER OUTAGE IN NEW YORK HISTORY.IN SEASIDE HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY.THE WHOLE TOWN WAS FLOODED OUT.

ITS 2:15PM AND THE NEW NUMBERS ARE 35 DEAD PLUS 1 IN CANADA AND 7.6 MILLION POWERLESS IN THE STATES AND AT LEAST 90,000 YET IN CANADA.THIS WAS THE WORST STORM IN NEW YORKS HISTORY.

ITS 5PM OCT 30,12.AND ITS REPORTED 40 ARE DEAD IN AMERICA AND 1 IN CANADA.AND THE POWERLESS TOTAL IS ALMOST 8 MILLION NOW.3 FEET OF SNOW IS IN WEST VIRGINIA.

ITS 7:40PM OCT 30,12 AND NOW ALL THE CLEANUP BEGINS AND EVERYBODY CAN TRY TO GET LIFE BACK TO NORMAL.ISRAELIS I THINK ITS TIME TO GO HOME TO ISRAEL WERE YOUR JEWISH MESSIAH (KING JESUS-GOD) WANTS YOU.NOW TORONTO,MONTREAL AND DETROIT START GETTING THE STORM THEIR WAY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.SANDY IS DYING DOWN SO IT SHOULD NOT BE TOO BAD FROM HERE ON IN.BUT I WILL DO DAY 3 UPDATES TOMORROW INCASE.WERE I LIVE THE WORST DAY WAS LAST NIGHT AROUND 9PM PLUS TILL THIS MORNING AS THE WINDS WERE GUSTING AT TIMES AND IT WAS RAINING BUT NOT TO HARD.WE ARE SUPPOSE TO HAVE RAIN OF 40% CHANCE AROUND HERE FOR THE NEXT 3 DAYS YET.

GROUND ZERO NEW YORK EX TOWERS SITE FLOODING DURING SANDY.ALSO IN THESE 29 PHOTOS-THE 700 TON TANKER THAT GOT MOORED PICTURE #20
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/29-breathtaking-photos-of-hurricane-sandy-devastat?sub=1847007_666454 


HURRICANE SANDY
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/29/sandy-leaves-at-least-10-dead-as-cyclone-slams-into-eastern-seaboard/

Hurricane Sandy: Woman killed by flying piece of sign at Keele St. plaza

Published 57 minutes ago11:10PM OCT 29,12

CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR The remaining panel on Staples store sign in Toronto’s west end flaps loosely in the wind Monday night, after a second panel became dislodged, striking and killing a woman.

Jennifer Pagliaro Staff Reporter

As the early breaths of Superstorm Sandy washed over Toronto early Monday night, the storm’s first life was taken after a woman was struck and killed by falling debris in the city’s west end.Toronto police said the woman, believed to be in her 30s, was found with “obvious head trauma” after 7 p.m. near the base of a Staples store sign mounted on a pole that towered over the parking lot off Keele St., just south of St. Clair Ave. W.The woman, who police had not yet identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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One panel of the large, red illuminated sign bearing the company’s logo became dislodged by the wind and had since blown away, said Sgt. Stella Karras at the scene.A second panel had also come loose, blowing precariously toward the sky before banging back down as rain pummeled the nearly empty parking lot.
“It is a little treacherous with the rain and the wind,” Karras said.
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Police officers were still determining how to remove the second panel in the downpour while an investigation continued. Karras said there appeared to have been no witnesses to the incident.It was the first of many challenges anticipated for the city as wind and rain picked up across the GTA Monday and meteorologists predicting the brunt of the storm to hit by Tuesday morning with 30 to 50 millimetres of rain by day’s end.
At a news conference Monday, city officials warned that Superstorm Sandy would test Toronto’s ability to deal with an unprecedented storm.Despite previous experience with flooding and power outages, city manager Joe Pennachetti said it’s “the length and scope of this storm that is different.”Blair Peberdy, a vice-president with Toronto Hydro, said he has never seen anything like it before.“Certainly not in my career if the forecasts are what they say they are. I’ve been with Toronto Hydro for 25, 30 years. So I don’t think we’ve seen one come through as strong as this one,” he said.As of Monday evening, Toronto Hydro spokeswoman Jennifer Link said at least 6,000 customers had lost power.The company predicted many more, some tens of thousands, could experience outages between a couple of hours and a number of days.
“We’re sending crews out to assess and repair the damage,” Link said. “But if it gets too dangerous, we’ll have to pull out the crews.”Link said due to an increase in calls and the possibly dangerous weather, some customers may still be without power into the afternoon Tuesday.Those power outages saw Toronto firefighters responding to numerous elevators rescue calls Monday.“There’s a strong trend of wires down and elevator rescues tonight,” said Toronto Fire spokesman Capt. David Eckerman.While some parts of the city — 32 areas including North York, Rexdale, Scarborough and the Beach — are prone to “chronic” basement flooring during intense storms, the duration of Superstorm Sandy made city officials confident the infrastructure could handle the extra load.“We do expect heavy rainfall but it’s spread out over a number of hours, so the sewer system should be able to keep up with it,” said Lou Di Gironimo, general manager of Toronto Water. “The problem is if the leaves get into the catch basin and start plugging up some of the storm sewers, you may see localized flooding.”Several pockets are also at risk of road flooding. The Bayview extension and Hoggs Hollow are the most likely to have a problem. City crews were working in the area to ensure drainage systems are clear.Community Safety Minister Madeleine Meilleur said Emergency Management Ontario would assist any municipalities unable to handle the fallout from the storm.
Meilleur added that the Red Cross and responders from Quebec and Manitoba may be able to assist if Ontario needs extra help.Meanwhile ORNGE air ambulances were grounded as of 2 p.m. Monday because of the strong winds.With files from Robyn Doolittle, Alex Consiglio and Touria Izri

U.S. refiners to assess damage as Sandy moves inland

Reuters – 3 hrs ago 2 AM OCT 30,12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. refinery and pipeline companies that nearly halted East Coast fuel supplies ahead of Hurricane Sandy will begin assessing the storm's damage on Tuesday, hoping that their flood defenses and on-site power allow a quick return to service.Three of the area's six key refineries -- including the two largest -- effectively shut down operations in advance of landfall Monday evening for the Atlantic storm. Two more reduced operating rates, curtailing at least two-thirds of the region's capacity.Major ports that supply the area with some 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of imported fuel were also shut, while the northern leg of the Colonial Pipeline from the Gulf Coast was idled. It supplies as much as 15 percent of the East Coast's 5.2 million bpd of gasoline, diesel and fuel demand.As Sandy's up to 90 mile per hour winds slow over land and its 13-foot storm surge subsides, operators such as Phillips 66 and PBF Energy will assess any damage to their facilities, and start making plans for restoring operations - a delicate process in the best of times.If damage is limited, many experts say fuel supplies should resume within a few days, potentially reversing the three-day, 6 percent rally in benchmark New York harbor gasoline futures as traders shift their focus from the threat of a supply squeeze to the loss of demand from airport and road closures.

"Markets have already bumped up prices to some degree. If there's no major catastrophes then prices are going to go in the other direction," said John Auers, senior vice president and refining specialist at Turner, Mason & Co. in Dallas.He said that the East Coast plants, even those near the water, are better protected from potential flood damage than those that suffered weeks-long outages on the Gulf Coast following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita seven years ago.But even well-prepared plants can face problems. Two months ago Phillips 66, which reported a power outage at its 238,000-bpd Bayway, New Jersey, refinery on Monday, was forced to clear more than two feet of floodwater from its Alliance, Louisiana, refinery following Hurricane Isaac, delaying its restart."Bayway is probably the most exposed as it sits right out by the water and it's certainly in the path of the storm," said Matthew Partridge, downstream analyst at Wood Mackenzie in Houston. He said plants should be up "within a few days" if they escape damage, although it was too early to give an assessment.Most refineries have some on-site generation equipment that could help restore operations if there are power outages. Phillips 66 did not immediately respond to an email seeking further details on the Bayway outage.The largest risk may simply lie in restarting vast, intense equipment after a brief shutdown."You're talking about heating up oil to fairly high temperatures, putting it through processing units at high pressure," said Auers. "Anytime you interrupt that steady-state there is always the potential for issues."
SUPPLIES STRETCHED, BUT DEMAND WEAK

Oil traders were already beginning to reconsider the run-up in fuel prices ahead of the storm. RBOB gasoline futures slipped 0.8 percent in overnight trading, the first loss in four days. One trader offering to sell physical cargoes in the New York harbor market found no buyers on Monday.That's despite the fact that fuel stockpiles -- heating oil in particular -- are unusually low for this time of year.While awaiting news on fuel supplies, oil traders began totting up the impact on demand.Airlines had canceled more than 13,700 flights for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, including more than 7,600 for Monday alone, Flight-tracking service FlightAware said. Road travel ground to a halt, with major bridges and tunnels shut down. Marine traffic at some of the nation's busiest ports was halted."The flip side is demand is going to be a lot lower this week, as not many people are going to be out there driving," said Partridge. "If this number of refineries went offline during the summer driving season gasoline prices would go through the roof."The precautionary refinery closures are more widespread than during Hurricane Irene in August 2011, when only the Bayway plant shut completely.Philadelphia Energy Solutions began the precautionary closure of key units at its 330,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Philadelphia refinery, the biggest in the region.Hess Corp said it shut its 70,000-bpd refinery in Port Reading, New Jersey, while PBF Energy opted to reduce rates at its 180,000-bpd Paulsboro plant in southern New Jersey, and its Delaware City facility.Delta Air Lines' Monroe Energy said it was monitoring the storm, but did not anticipate altering operations at its 185,000-bpd plant in Trainer, Pennsylvania, which has only recently returned to service after major maintenance.Even if the refineries escape unscathed, however, any damage to the vast network of oil terminals, pipelines and truck racks could complicate supply logistics.NuStar Energy and Magellan Midstream Partners, two of the biggest players in the nation's pipeline and storage terminal business, also shut terminals along the East Coast."As a result, the distribution infrastructure, including pipelines and refined product terminals are extremely important and could hamper recovery efforts if significant amounts of this infrastructure is damaged," said Roger Ihne, principal in the oil and gas practice at consultancy Deloitte.(Reporting By Janet McGurty, Jonathan Leff and David Sheppard; Editing by Michael Urquhart)

New York paralyzed as Sandy slams into eastern U.S.

By Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman | Reuters – 47 mins ago 4:25AM OCT 30,12 TUE

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, battered the nation's eastern seaboard on Tuesday, swamping New York City streets with record levels of floodwater, blacking out power to millions of people and bringing transportation to a halt through much of the region.

At least 13 people were reported killed in the United States by Sandy, which dropped just below hurricane status before going ashore in New Jersey on Monday, according to officials and media reports. More than 1 million people across a dozen states were under orders to evacuate as the massive system continued to plow westward.One disaster forecasting company predicted economic losses could ultimately reach $20 billion, only half insured.The storm also slowed the presidential campaign at a key time ahead of next week's vote and closed U.S. markets for two days.Sandy, which was especially imposing because of its wide-raging winds, brought a record surge of almost 14 feet to downtown Manhattan, well above the previous record of 10 feet during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said.Water poured into the subway system and tunnels that run under the rivers around Manhattan, raising concerns that the world's financial capital could be hobbled for days to come."Hitting at high tide, the strongest surge and the strongest winds all hit at the worst possible time," said Jeffrey Tongue, meteorologist for the weather service in Brookhaven, New York.Hurricane-force winds as high as 90 miles per hour were recorded, he said."Hopefully it's a once-in-a-lifetime storm," Tongue said.Large sections of New York City were in darkness without power and transportation in the metropolitan area was at a standstill."In 108 years our employees have never faced a challenge like the one that confronts us now," Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota said in a statement.It could take anywhere from 14 hours to four days to get the water out of the flooded subway tunnels, the MTA said."The damage has been geographically very widespread throughout the entire subway, bus, LIRR (Long Island Railroad) and Metro North system, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said.
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The unprecedented flooding was hampering efforts to fight a massive fire in one of the city's barrier island neighborhoods, Breezy Point in the borough Queens, the New York Fire Department said. More than 170 firefighters battled a fire that destroyed more than 50 homes.Two people were reported dead in New York City - a man in a house hit by a tree and a woman who stepped into an electrified puddle of water. Two other people were killed in suburban Westchester County, north of New York City, and a motor vehicle death in Massachusetts was blamed in part on the bad weather.Two others were killed in Maryland in storm-related incidents, state authorities said, and deaths also were reported in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, CNN said.Toronto police also recorded one death - a woman hit by flying debris.Some 6.8 million people in several states were left without electrical power by the storm, which crashed ashore late on Monday near the gambling resort of Atlantic City, New Jersey.In New Jersey, Exelon Corp declared an alert around its Oyster Creek nuclear power plant because of rising waters, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. Officials said if waters rose further, they might be forced to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods.An alert-level incident, the second-lowest of four action levels, means there's a "potential substantial degradation in the level of safety" at a reactor.
The storm's wind field stretched from South Carolina north to the Canadian border and from West Virginia to a point in the Atlantic Ocean halfway to Bermuda, easily one of the largest ever seen, the National Hurricane Center said.Heavy snow fell in higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountain inland, and the population centers of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were in the slow-moving storm's path.
In New York, a crane partially collapsed and dangled from a 90-story luxury apartment building under construction in midtown Manhattan, and authorities evacuated residents in the area out of fear that high winds would bring the entire rig down.Much of the city was deserted, as its subways, buses, commuter trains, bridges and airports were closed.Neighborhoods along the East and Hudson rivers were underwater, as were low-lying streets near Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood.Power and back-up generators failed at New York University Hospital, forcing patients to be moved elsewhere for care.
In lower Manhattan, firefighters used inflatable orange boats to rescue utility workers stranded for three hours by rising floodwaters inside a power substation.One of the Con Ed workers pulled from the floodwater, Angelo Amato, said he was part of a crew who had offered to work through the storm.

"This is what happens when you volunteer," he said.

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Trees were downed across the region, falling debris closed a major bridge in Boston and floodwater and gusts of wind buffeted coastal towns such as Fairfield, Connecticut, home to many commuters into New York City.With eight days to go before the election, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney canceled scheduled campaign events and acted cautiously to avoid coming across as overtly political while millions of people are imperiled.U.S. stock markets were set to be closed on Tuesday. They closed on Monday for the first time since the attacks of September 11, 2001.The federal government in Washington was closed and schools were shut up and down the East Coast.NYSE Euronext said there had been no damage to the New York Stock Exchange headquarters that could impair trading floor operations but it was making contingency plans in case of such damage.Sandy killed 66 people in the Caribbean last week before pounding U.S. coastal areas.(Additional reporting Edith Honan, Greg Roumeliotis, Janet McGurty, Scott DiSavino and Martinne Geller in New York Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; editing by Dan Burns and Bill Trott)

Over a dozen dead, over 6 million without power as Sandy pummels the East Coast

Published October 30, 2012 FoxNews.com-5:23AM

Monster Storm Sandy slammed into the East Coast Monday, killing at least 16 people, hurling a record-breaking 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City and knocking out power to an estimated 6.2 million people. The massive storm was downgraded from a hurricane after it barged ashore in southern New Jersey, bringing more than 85-mph winds and a roiling wall of seawater as it moved through New York City. It sent water surging into two major commuter tunnels and into subway stations and tracks. It was unclear how much water had come in.The 16 deaths were reported in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Some of the victims were killed by falling trees. At least one death was blamed on the storm in Canada.The power was out for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and an estimated 6.2 million people altogether across the East, with the full extent of the storm's damage across the region unclear and unlikely to be known until daybreak.The MTA cut power to some subway tunnels in lower Manhattan, after water came into the stations and tracks. The MTA couldn't say at this point how much damage had been done, and how much time it would take to restore everything to normal.Consolidated Edison was prompted to cut power to part of the area to avoid storm damage. A large portion of Manhattan's FDR Drive was under water. Reuters reported late Monday that there had been an explosion at a Consolidated Edison power station on the east side of Manhattan. Despite earlier reports, ConEd said on Twitter no one was trapped inside the plant. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says backup power has been lost at New York University hospital and the city is working to move people out. The mayor delivered a news conference Monday night and said rain was tapering off in the city and the storm surge was expected to recede by midnight. The hospital complex is near the East River in an area of lower Manhattan where flooding has been reported.The hurricane-turned-post-tropical cyclone, still a powerful, 900-mile-wide hybrid of several weather systems, sent 30-foot-high swells toward New Jersey, and as its eye passed over the shoreline, a surge as high as 10 feet tore into dunes and washed across boardwalks.The state had evacuated all shore towns ahead of the strike, with Gov. Chris Christie telling residents who ignored the evacuation orders they were "both stupid and selfish." "[It's a] very intense, very dangerous storm. People will die in this storm," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Monday. "So folks will need to mind their families, stay home and hunker down."Even homes on stilts were threatened by the massive surge, and water was cresting dunes and boardwalks from Delaware's Rehoboth Beach to Jones Beach in New York.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down all major New York bridges and schools, airports and the New York Stock Exchange were closed for Tuesday. North of Atlantic City, the storm was expected to be at maximum force from about 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., with gusts up to 90 mph, especially on ocean-facing beaches. For Long Island, Connecticut, and the rest of coastal New England, the high impact winds could last until midnight, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Weather Journal.The National Guard was deployed along the densely-populated Atlantic Coast, and airports shut down Monday afternoon as the massive system churned in from the sea, creating 30-foot swells off the Jersey shore. The storm is on a collision course with a winter storm and a cold front, and high tides from a full moon make it a rare hybrid storm that could be felt all the way to the Great Lakes. Still, it could be worse – the storm could be well inland when evening high tide comes, some six hours after landfall."People will die in this storm."

- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley-Sandy has already been blamed for 69 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard.In Washington, President Obama urged the millions in Sandy’s path to heed warnings from local and state officials.“When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate,” Obama said. “Don't delay, don't pause, don't question the instructions that are being given because this is a powerful storm."States of emergency were declared from North Carolina, where gusty winds whipped steady rain on Sunday, to Connecticut. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities on Sunday, while Ocean City, Md., also was evacuated. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate in anticipation of the storm, including 375,000 in lower Manhattan and other parts of New York City. At least 50,000 were ordered to evacuate in Delaware alone and 30,000 in Atlantic City, N.J., where the city's 12 casinos were forced to shut down for only the fourth time in the 34-year history of legalized gambling there.Airlines canceled more than 8,962 flights and Amtrak suspended passenger train service across the Northeast for Monday and Tuesday. New York and Philadelphia shut down their subways, buses and commuter trains Sunday night and announced that schools would be closed on Monday. Boston, Washington and Baltimore also called off school. In Washington and New Jersey, Metrorail and PATH train services were canceled.In Connecticut, the number of power outages began climbing as the storm moved through the state. In New York City, 250,000 homes were reported to be without power. 

"We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.An assistant manager at a Lowes store in Columbus, Ohio, told 10TV.com that people were calling in from West Virginia and Maryland to ask for supplies, and in northern Virginia, a cashier at Pitkins Ace Hardware in Dale City said batteries, flashlights and candles were flying off the shelves, PotomacLocal.com reports.The storm even put Lady Liberty on hold.The Statue of Liberty was scheduled to reopen Sunday to the public after a renovation project, but the monument will be closed Monday and Tuesday as Sandy passes through the area.The danger of the storm is hardly limited to coastal areas. Forecasters were far more worried about inland flooding from storm surge than they were about winds. Rains could saturate the ground, causing trees to topple into power lines, utility officials said, warning residents to prepare for several days at home without power.In North Carolina's Outer Banks, there was some scattered, minor flooding Sunday on the beach road in Nags Head. The Virginia National Guard was also authorized to call up to 500 troops to active duty for debris removal and road-clearing, while homeowners stacked sandbags at their front doors in coastal towns.President Obama said the storm is "serious and big" and will be "slow moving," while he was at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get an update on plans for responding to Hurricane Sandy.The White House said in a news release that the president on Sunday signed the state of emergency declaration, which had been requested by Mayor Vincent Gray. It says federal aid should supplement the city's response efforts due to the emergency conditions.The move follows the federal government's decision to close offices on Monday. The district's board of elections also announced it was suspending early voting on Monday. It has not been determined whether here will be early voting on Tuesday.Obama nixed his participation in a campaign rally in Orlando on Monday and flew back to Washington to monitor the storm. The president has instructed his team to make sure that needed federal resources are in place to support state and local recovery efforts.Mitt Romney canceled all his campaign events for Monday night and Tuesday due to the storm. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, announced in a rare move it would not convene on Tuesday. The court will hear Tuesday's arguments on Thursday. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Hurricane Sandy: Vicious winds, rain hits Ontario, Quebec and Maritimes as Sandy churns north

Published 36 minutes ago9:15AM OCT 30,12

RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR Barry Wadman is counting his luck after a 100 year old Red Oak fell into his home on Neville Park in the Beach as supertorm Sandy reached Toronto the night of Oct. 29, 2012. The storm caused blackouts and many fallen trees throughout the city, and beyond.

Diana Mehta -The Canadian Press

TORONTO—Southern Ontario, Quebec and parts of the Maritimes are being lashed by superstorm Sandy this morning as the massive weather system churns its way north.The destructive post-tropical storm has already wheeled through the northeastern U.S. — where it has been responsible for flooding, widespread power outages and at least 16 deaths — and is now walloping parts of Canada with strong winds and heavy rain.For forecasters, the sheer size of the storm is what sets it apart.“It’s huge,” said Rob Kuhn, a severe weather meteorologist with Environment Canada’s Ontario Storm Prediction Centre.“We’re dealing with strong winds from southern Ontario and eastern lower Michigan, all the way through Quebec into parts of the Maritimes and across a large part of the north eastern states.”Southern Ontario is expected to bear the brunt of the storm today, with powerful winds being more of a concern for forecasters than the rain. Tens of thousands of customers lost their electricity in both Ontario and Quebec.The fierce weather is also causing travel disruptions at Canada’s busiest airport, cancelling roughly a quarter of flights in and out of Toronto’s Pearson airport and delaying many more.“Some of the strongest gusts from this storm in Canada will come in southern Ontario, especially if you’re either over higher ground northwest of Toronto or near the south shore of the Great Lakes,” Kuhn told The Canadian Press.“There will be some places that will be chiming in with wind gusts close to 100 kilometres per hour.”Those gusts claimed a life in Toronto Monday night — city police said a woman had been killed by a falling sign as winds blowing at about 65 kilometres per hour whipped the city. Sandy was unleashing its wrath on New York City at the time, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre said the impact of the weather system extended over a thousand kilometres away from the storm.
Many Canadians living in Sandy’s path have already taken to Twitter and Facebook to discuss the power outages, rattling windows and damage to backyards caused by the storm-While the winds remain strong this morning, wind warnings have ended for all areas except Sarnia, in southwestern Ontario, which Environment Canada says had some of the strongest gusts at 100 km/h.Parts of southern Quebec and southwestern Nova Scotia will also be whipped by strong winds, but the gusts will not be blowing as hard as in Ontario.As the storm swirls its way north, officials are urging people in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes to take precautions through the day.At their strongest predicted point, today’s winds could down trees, hurl debris through neighbourhoods, create difficulties for motorists on highways and even make it difficult to walk down a street, said Kuhn.“If somebody loses their balance, they could get knocked over,” he said.Rain is also an issue today, but the showers, while they will be heavy, are likely to come in sporadic bursts.“There’s shots of heavy rain but it doesn’t last long. This is more of a wind storm,” Kuhn said.Showers over Southern Ontario dwindled overnight and only periods of light rain are in the forecast for the region today, while moderate rains in central Ontario are expected to diminish later in the day, according to Environment Canada.Between 20-40 millimetres of rain are expected in southern and central Quebec, though areas over higher terrain could see as much as 50 millimetres, the agency said.The precipitation could turn into snow over parts of Ontario and western Quebec, said Environment Canada.The southwestern Maritimes are also likely to experience a soggy day with rain that could persist into Wednesday with total amounts which could exceed 50 millimetres.Higher than normal water levels and pounding surf is expected along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia and along the St. Lawrence River. Forecasters are warning that some coastal flooding could be seen in the Quebec City region.Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has said the military and the Canadian Coast Guard are on standby to help grapple with any havoc wreaked by Sandy.Health Canada is conducting generator checks and has reviewed the National Emergency Stockpile, which contains supplies such as beds, blankets and antibiotics. Meanwhile, the Red Cross says it has 550 volunteers on standby in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.Sandy is expected to weaken through the day, but it will be a slow process.
“The winds will slowly start to slack off later this morning and this afternoon, but it’s going to be a very gradual process,” said Kuhn.Environment Canada expects winds in Ontario to drop to between 40 and 60 kilometres per hour this afternoon and predicts gusts between 30 and 50 kilometres an hour by tonight.
Sandy made landfall in the U.S. Monday evening, just after forecasters stripped it of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature.It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.The storm killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Atlantic.

Sandy leaves 145,000 Canadians without power, one dead

By Rod Nickel | Reuters – 7 mins ago 9:55AM OCT 30,12

(Reuters) - Sandy toppled trees and power lines in the Canadian province of Ontario, leaving at least 145,000 people without power on Tuesday, including 55,000 in Toronto, the country's financial center.

Strong winds whipped up debris, killing a Toronto woman on Monday.The Toronto Stock Exchange was set to remain open, making it a North American island of equity trading for the second successive day, with U.S. stock markets closed.Numerous flights on Air Canada, WestJet Airlines, Porter Airlines and other carriers between the U.S. Northeast and Toronto's Pearson International Airport and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport were canceled."It's been a long night," said Mike Bradley, mayor of the Lake Huron border city of Sarnia, Ontario, where winds are expected to gust to 100 km/h (60 mph)."Waves were running from six to nine meters, which people around here cannot remember for at least a generation," he told CBC. "I'm sitting in the dark, we've just lost the power."Ontario officials had warned people to stay inside as gusts from the huge storm swept through the province, citing risks of flooding and other damage. But the impact was tiny compared to the vast outages and widespread flooding seen in the U.S. East Coast.(Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Editing by Janet Guttsman)

Possible levee break in New Jersey floods three towns

By Daniel Bases and Edward Krudy | Reuters – 48 mins ago 9:12AM OCT 30,12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A possible levee breach in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, flooded three towns with 4 to 5 feet of water in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, prompting the evacuation of hundreds from their homes.The towns of Moonachie, Little Ferry and Carlstadt were underwater after the swollen Hackensack River broke its banks, affecting around 2,000 residents, said Jeanne Baratta, chief of the Bergen County Executive.Baratta, who was on the scene with emergency personnel, said there was the possibility that the river overflowed its banks rather than broke a levee while a New Jersey State Police spokesman described it as a levee break in the borough of Moonachie.There were no immediate reports of any fatalities and rescue workers took approximately 200 residents out of the danger zone while some others left on their accord.
"They are wet and they are cold and they have lost their homes and their property. It is very sad," Baratta said."We are in rescue mode," she said, adding that the three towns had been "devastated" by the flood waters.Baratta described a scene of rescue teams using boats and trucks to move residents to safety at a nearby school in Teterboro, which also is home to a regional airport heavily used by corporate jets and smaller aircraft.The break came hours after Sandy, which dropped below hurricane status just before it hit the U.S. East Coast on Monday.(Reporting By Daniel Bases and Edward Krudy; Editing by Bill Trott)

Huge fire in Sandy's wake destroys dozens of NYC homes

Reuters – 4 hrs ago 6AM OCT 30,12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A huge fire that erupted as Sandy ripped through New York City with near-hurricane force winds on Monday night destroyed dozens of homes in one of the city's most remote neighborhoods, officials said.The neighborhood, Breezy Point in the borough of Queens, had been extensively flooded by Sandy's record storm surge, and firefighters were hampered in their efforts to bring the blaze under control, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department said.No casualties were immediately reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation.A tweet from the FDNY's official Twitter feed said 50 or more homes were destroyed in the fire. The fire still was not under control by 5 a.m. (0900 GMT), the department said.Local television showed firefighters wading through waist-deep water to get to the massive fire. Some used inflatable boats to reach it.Breezy Point is a private beach community in the Rockaway area, a narrow spit of land barely above sea level that thrusts into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.It was one of a number of New York City neighborhoods that had been under a mandatory evacuation order as Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, approached from the southeast.According to a report from WABC-TV in New York, dozens of residents chose not to obey the evacuation order and as many as 40 had to be rescued by firefighters from homes in the neighborhood as the fire approached, driven by 70 mph (112 kmh) winds. The NYFD spokesman could not verify the television station's report of rescues.(Reporting By Dan Burns; Editing by Bill Trott)

Sandy leaves unprecedented challenges for New York City subways

Reuters – 1 hr 10 mins ago 9AM OCT 30,12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The giant storm Sandy wreaked havoc on the New York City subway system, flooding tunnels, garages and rail yards and threatening to paralyze the nation's largest mass-transit system for days."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," Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, said in a statement early on Tuesday.All seven subway tunnels running under the East River from Manhattan to Queens and Brooklyn took in water, and any resulting saltwater damage to the system's electrical components will have to be cleaned - in some cases off-site - before the system can be restored, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transit Authority said on Tuesday.At dawn on Tuesday, emergency crews were assessing the damage to tunnels and elevated tracks. Restoring the system is likely to be a gradual process, MTA spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said."It's really hard to say which areas will come back first," said Parker, adding it will likely be a combination of limited subway and bus service. "It will come back gradually."About 5.3 million people on average use the city's subway system on weekdays.
The MTA's Metro North Railroad lost power on its suburban Hudson and New Haven lines, while there was flooding in an East River tunnel used by the Long Island Rail Road, the agency said.The city closed down subway, bus and commuter train systems on Sunday night - a full day before Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever hit the United States, made landfall on Monday night in neighboring New Jersey.Though not a hurricane, Sandy was especially imposing because of its wide-ranging winds. The storm brought a record storm surge of almost 14 feet to downtown Manhattan, well above the previous record of 10 feet during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said.(Reporting By Edith Honan; Editing by Eric Beech)

HMS Bounty captain still missing after Sandy sinks ship

Deckhand from hurricane-battered replica tall ship pronounced dead in hospital

CBC News Posted: Oct 30, 2012 7:33 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 30, 2012 9:21 AM ET

U.S. Coast Guard officials continue to search for the captain of the Nova Scotia-built replica tall ship HMS Bounty, which sank Monday in high seas brought on by Hurricane Sandy.A fixed-wing aircraft searched for Captain Robin Walbridge overnight, said Operations Specialist 1st Class Jacob Hyre with the U.S. Coast Guard in Portsmouth, Va."Through the night we had an HC-144 flying, the fixed-wing aircraft. This morning relieving it will be a C-130," Hyre told CBC News Tuesday morning."We also have the cutter Elm and we also have the Coast Guard cutter Gallatin en route in the search."Hyre said the area of the search is about 83 square kilometres off the coast of North Carolina, close to where the crew decided to abandon ship after getting caught in 5.5-metre seas.The Bounty sank several hours after the evacuation.The 16 crew members of HMS Bounty tried to get to covered life-rafts but three of them were washed overboard in the process. One of the three people made it to the life-raft and was among the 14 people hoisted onto helicopters and taken to shore.Walbridge, 63, and deckhand Claudene Christian, 42, were swept overboard and didn't make it to the life-rafts.
Robin Walbridge, captain of HMS Bounty, is missing at sea. (HMS Bounty website) Christian was located by an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter on Monday evening and taken to Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, N.C., where she was pronounced dead.CBC News spoke to Claudene Christian's mother on Monday morning as the rescue efforts began in the Atlantic Ocean. She said her daughter was "truly and genuinely happy" and had called before the journey "just in case she went down with the ship."Christian was a descendant of Fletcher Christian, the master's mate who seized control of the original Bounty during Capt. William Bligh's voyage in 1789.That story was turned into a 1962 movie starring Marlon Brando — Mutiny on the Bounty — for which the replica was built and launched in Lunenburg, N.S., in 1960. The ship has also appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest starring Johnny Depp.The Facebook page of HMS Bounty called the ship sailing in Hurricane Sandy a "calculated decision" and said "a ship is safer at sea than in port."Claudia McCann, Walbridge's wife, told CBC News her husband was trying to get around Hurricane Sandy en route to Florida.

West Virginia under blizzard warning as Appalachia storm blows

Snow coats Highway 33 West in West Virginia as Hurricane Sandy batters the eastern seaboard, and a cold weather system blankets most of the high elevations in West Virginia on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. As the systems meet, blizzard conditions are in effect across multiple counties in West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)

The Associated Press -CTVNEWS Published Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 9:16AM EDT

ELKINS, W.Va. -- Wet snow and high winds spinning off the edge of superstorm Sandy spread blizzard conditions over parts of West Virginia and neighboring Appalachian states Tuesday, shutting one interstate as trucks and cars bogged down and knocking out power to many.The National Weather Service said a foot and more of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for parts of the state was in effect until Wednesday afternoon.More than 128,000 customers in West Virginia were without power early Tuesday. In Elkins, a city of about 7,000 people, power went out across town before dawn and the only lights were from passing snow plows as heavy, wet flakes piled up to about 8 inches.Authorities closed more than 45 miles of Interstate 68 on either side of the West Virginia-Maryland state line because of blizzard conditions and stuck cars.On the Maryland side, crews were trying to remove several tractor-trailers stuck on the highway. Four or five passenger vehicles also were abandoned in the median, State Highway Administration spokeswoman Kelly Boulware said.The higher elevations in western parts of Maryland received more than a foot of snow since Monday afternoon, and it was still snowing Tuesday before dawn, Boulware said.Police rescued several stranded motorists on the interstate in West Virginia, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.Officials in West Virginia said a woman was killed Monday in a storm-related traffic accident. A spokeswoman for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said about 5 inches of snow had fallen in the area of Tucker County where the crash occurred, making road conditions treacherous.A significant winter storm continued in northeast Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains, where the National Weather Service forecast continuing snow showers over the higher elevations through Wednesday morning Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/west-virginia-under-blizzard-warning-as-appalachia-storm-blows-1.1016606#ixzz2AnALlJVW

Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

By ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press – 4 hours ago 6AM OCT 30,12 

NEW YORK (AP) — As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark.New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center.President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island.The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.The massive storm reached well into the Midwest: Chicago officials warned residents to stay away from the Lake Michigan shore as the city prepares for winds of up to 60 mph and waves exceeding 24 feet well into Wednesday."This will be one for the record books," said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.An unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater — 3 feet above the previous record — gushed into Gotham, inundating tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street, and sent hospital patients and tourists scrambling for safety. Skyscrapers swayed and creaked in winds that partially toppled a crane 74 stories above Midtown.
Right before dawn, a handful of taxis were out on the streets, though there was an abundance of emergency and police vehicles.Remnants of the former Category 1 hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. Although weakening as it goes, the massive storm — which caused wind warnings from Florida to Canada — will continue to bring heavy rain and local flooding, said Daniel Brown, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status — but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.While the hurricane's 90 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed "astoundingly low" barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT.Officials blamed at least 16 deaths on the converging storms — five in New York, three each in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two in Connecticut, and one each in Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Three of the victims were children, one just 8 years old.Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard, began to hook left at midday Monday toward the New Jersey coast. Even before it made landfall, crashing waves had claimed an old, 50-foot piece of Atlantic City's world-famous Boardwalk."We are looking at the highest storm surges ever recorded" in the Northeast, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for Weather Underground, a private forecasting service.Sitting on the dangerous northeast wall of the storm, the New York metropolitan area got the worst of it.An explosion at a ConEdison substation knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan, said Miksad."We see a pop. The whole sky lights up," said Dani Hart, 30, who was watching the storm from the roof of her building in the Navy Yards."It sounded like the Fourth of July," Stephen Weisbrot said from his 10th-floor apartment.New York University's Tisch Hospital was forced to evacuate 200 patients after its backup generator failed. NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman said patients — among them 20 babies from neonatal intensive care that were on battery-powered respirators — had to be carried down staircases and to dozens of waiting ambulances.
Not only was the subway shut down, but the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey was closed, as was a tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were closed due to high winds.
A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously. Thousands of people were ordered to leave several nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.Alice Goldberg, 15, a tourist from Paris, was watching television in the hotel — whose slogan is "Uptown, Not Uptight" — when a voice came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to leave."They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we'll come back in two or three days," she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. "I hope so."Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was canceled again Tuesday — the first time the exchange suspended operations for two consecutive days due to weather since an 1888 blizzard struck the city.Fire destroyed at least 50 homes Monday night in a flooded neighborhood in the Breezy Point section of the borough of Queens, where the Rockaway peninsula juts into the Atlantic Ocean. Firefighters told WABC-TV that they had to use a boat to rescue residents because the water was chest high on the street. About 25 people were trapped in one home, with two injuries reported.
Airlines canceled around 12,500 flights because of the storm, a number that was expected to grow.
Off North Carolina, not far from an area known as "the Graveyard of the Atlantic," a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" sank when her diesel engine and bilge pumps failed. Coast Guard helicopters plucked 14 crew members from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot seas.A 15th crew member who was found unresponsive several hours after the others was later pronounced dead. The Bounty's captain was still missing.One of the units at Indian Point, a nuclear power plant about 45 miles north of New York City, was shut down around 10:45 p.m. Monday because of external electrical grid issues, said Entergy Corp., which operates the plant. The company said there was no risk to employees or the public.And officials declared an "unusual event" at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, N.J., the nation's oldest, when waters surged to 6 feet above sea level during the evening. Within two hours, the situation at the reactor — which was offline for regular maintenance — was upgraded to an alert, the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system. Oyster Creek provides 9 percent of the state's electricity.In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. Meanwhile, a blizzard in far western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked the westbound lanes of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain near the town of Finzel."It's like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here," said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher.Hundreds of miles from the storm's center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scaring away several cruise ships. A state of emergency in New Hampshire prompted Vice President Joe Biden to cancel a rally in Keene and Republican nominee Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, to call off her bus tour through the Granite State.About 360,000 people in 30 Connecticut towns were urged to leave their homes under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. Christi McEldowney was among those who fled to a Fairfield shelter. She and other families brought tents for their children to play in."There's something about this storm," she said. "I feel it deep inside."Despite dire warnings and evacuation orders that began Saturday, many stayed put.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — whose own family had to move to the executive mansion after his home in Mendham, far from the storm's center, lost power — criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for opening shelters there instead of forcing people out.Eugenia Buono, 77, and her neighbor, Elaine DiCandio, 76, were among several dozen people who took shelter at South Kingstown High School in Narragansett, R.I. They live on Harbor Island, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway."I'm not an idiot," said Buono, who survived hurricanes Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991. "People are very foolish if they don't leave."Hays reported from New York and Breed reported from Raleigh, N.C.; AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington. Associated Press writers David Dishneau in Delaware City, Del., Katie Zezima in Atlantic City, Emery P. Dalesio in Elizabeth City, N.C., and Erika Niedowski in Cranston, R.I., also contributed.

UPDATED: Storm wreaks havoc on city 8

By Barbara Simpson, Sarnia Observer

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:19:25 EDT PM

Crews worked to clear traffic lights tipped over by the wind at Front and Lochiel streets Monday night. "Frankenstorm" roared into Sarnia-Lambton overnight, toppling trees, downing power lines and even causing a city-wide blackout at one point.

SARNIA - Sarnia’s dose of the “Frankenstorm” has left city streets in disarray after strong winds uprooted trees, downed power lines and even darkened the entire city at one point overnight Monday.About 25 Bluewater Power workers spent the night restoring power in pockets of the city. In total, 30,000 Bluewater Power customers were without power at some point overnight Monday."The winds just played absolute havoc with our system,” said Janice McMichael-Dennis, CEO of Bluewater Power. “We've had much stronger wind gusts here overnight than other parts. You can't sustain wind gusts like that without having infrastructure damage."Monday night’s wind gusts are believed to have reached at least 100 km/h in Sarnia. Environment Canada extended its wind warning Tuesday morning. It later lifted the warning around 1:15 p.m.
About 800 Bluewater Power customers remained without power as of 9 a.m. Tuesday. Crews were bracing for more calls of downed power lines throughout the day.McMichael-Dennis described the storm’s upheaval as "some of the most significant infrastructure damage” she has seen."At one point, we had the entire city of Sarnia out,” she said. “We had all feeders out.”McMichael-Dennis said the blackout lasted only about 10 minutes. She noted most people wouldn’t have likely noticed because it happened in the middle of the night.
"We've had crews out around the clock, going non-stop,” she said. “As you can imagine, the working conditions out there are truly horrible, but these tradesmen that are working are going out there and giving it their all."Sarnia police said they received no reports of injuries related to the storm. However, police received many calls about downed tree limbs and power lines.“Most of those kinds of calls we attend if there’s wires across the road or something like that until the utility companies can get the roadway cleared or the power shut off,” said Staff Sgt. Andrew Beni.Several schools were closed Tuesday due to power outages. These included Bright’s Grove, Hanna Memorial, High Park, London Road and Wyoming public schools. SCITS was also closed due to a lack of power.Lambton College remained open for classes.Imperial Oil shut down several of its units as the storm rolled through Sarnia early Tuesday. Power was restored at the 121,000 barrel a day facility around 5 a.m.Company officials don’t believe the outage will affect petroleum product supplies.Hurricane Sandy is believed to be weakening now, according to Environment Canada reports. The remains of Sandy have moved into southcentral Pennsylvania and are believed to be heading into eastern Ontario by Wednesday.
Between 5 p.m. Monday night and 6 a.m. Tuesday, the following calls for service were received:
• Sarnia Police Service had 51 calls for incidents such as traffic obstructions, dangerous conditions, alarm calls, welfare checks on the elderly or disabled persons without hydro etc.
• City Fire has responded to 37 calls responding to down power lines and trees.
• Parks and Recreation calls for tree services are at 33 calls and still climbing.
• City works has responded to 12 calls for sewer backups, for road barricades, water mains, road clearing of debris and calls continue directly to City works.
• Throughout the night, Bluewater Power received an overwhelming number of calls and have responded or are in the process of working through them.
• EMS had a total of 75 calls, none of them weather related.
The Public is advised, in light of the ongoing wind issues, to avoid walking in wooded areas due to the potential of falling trees and branches.
Sarnia staff are working on an additional brush pick up to deal with the fallout from the wind storm. Details will follow in a future release from the city. barbara.simpson@sunmedia.ca

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Sandy leaves 35 dead, 7.6 million without power in U.S.

Storm moving across Pennsylvania, expected to turn north across New York state CBC News Posted: Oct 30, 2012 1:57 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 30, 2012 1:45 PM ET

More than 7.6 million homes and businesses are without power throughout the eastern U.S. as post-tropical storm Sandy leaves a path of destruction, at least 35 dead, and a record-breaking storm surge that has flooded parts of the Eastern Seaboard, including New York City.New York City, which saw a four-metre storm surge, has counted at least 10 deaths, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he expects that toll will rise."In addition to the lives we lost, the damage we suffered across the city is clearly extensive and it will not be repaired overnight," Bloomberg told reporters."This was a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced," he saidHe said the city faces "enormous" challenges to get its public transit and power transmission systems back in operation.U.S. President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in parts of New Jersey and New York.The declaration makes federal funding available to people in the area, which bore the brunt of the sea surge from the superstorm.The 10 subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn were flooded during the storm, as saltwater surge inundated signals, switches and third rails and covered tracks with sludge, said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson Marjorie Anders.
"This is really an island cut off right now," CBC's David Common said, standing along the banks of the Hudson River near Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.The authority was already pumping water Tuesday. Workers ultimately will have to walk all of the track to inspect it, said Anders, and it wasn't clear how long that would take.The list of U.S. deaths included 17 in New York state, plus three in New Jersey, and four in Pennsylvania. Deaths were also reported in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Three of the dead were children, including an eight-year-old. Many of the deaths were attributed to falling trees. A woman in Toronto was killed by a falling sign that came apart in high winds.After days of dire forecasts, warnings and mass evacuations in coastal areas, Sandy came ashore near Atlantic City, N.J., around 8 p.m. ET. Environment Canada said the storm's effects were felt as far as 1,000 kilometres away.As of 11 a.m. ET Tuesday, the storm was approximately 235 kilometres west of Philadelphia, the U.S. National Weather Service said.

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"Standing water combined with downed power lines will pose a threat for the coast, heavy rain across the northeast will bring the risk of flooding and west of the Appalachians heavy snow will continue to fall in places like West Virginia," CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland said.Although the storm is weakening as it moves westward, it still has maximum sustained winds of 72 km/h.The remnants of Sandy are expected to move to the west-northwest and then turn north into New York state Tuesday night. The storm's centre is expected to move into Canada on Wednesday.Environment Canada said Sandy was expected to weaken "very rapidly" as it moves toward the eastern Great Lakes.U.S. forecasters warned there was still potential for six-metre waves bashing into the Chicago lakefront and up to 90 centimetres of snow in West Virginia.

Red Cross mobilizes resources

Dozens of homes were devastated by fire in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Almost 11,000 people spent Monday night in 250 Red Cross shelters in 16 states, according to a Red Cross statement.About 1,700 disaster workers hurried to offer their services, providing shelter, food, water and comfort to those in need. The workers have served more than 25,000 meals in shelters already, and the organization has shipped out more than 200,000 ready-to-eat meals.The Red Cross is preparing for these numbers to jump as the storm moves into Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee.

About 15,000 flights cancelled

About 15,000 flights were cancelled, train service was disrupted, roads were closed and schools and offices were shut down before the storm ever arrived.
Storm damage is already projected at $10 billion to $20 billion US, meaning it could prove to be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday in Hoboken, NJ. (Charles Sykes/Associated Press) A fire in the Queens neighbourhood of Breezy Point, which juts into the Atlantic, destroyed between 80 and 100 flooded homes. The area was in the flood zone, but it wasn't immediately clear if the storm directly caused the blaze. At least threepeople were injured.CBC reporter Melissa Kent said police were out to prevent looting in lower Manhattan, where everything below 39th Street was still without power. Officials said it could be a week before power is restored.A New York City hospital was forced to move out more than 200 patients, including 20 infants from neonatal intensive care, after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by the superstorm.Dozens of ambulances lined up outside NYU Langone Medical Center-Tisch Hospital on Monday night as doctors and nurses began the slow process of taking people to other hospitals.
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University's Tisch Hospital. (John Minchillo/AP) Most of the power outages in lower Manhattan, where the hospital is located, were due to an explosion at an electrical substation, officials at Consolidated Edison said.Other damage around New York included a four-storey building in Chelsea that lost its facade, and a construction crane atop a high-rise in mid-town Manhattan that collapsed. Mayor Bloomberg said the crane is stable, but workers won't be able to secure it until winds die down.At the height of the chaos, New York's 911 system was receiving 20,000 calls an hour, Common said."This is not yet in the clean-up phase," he said from Lower Manhattan. "This is still in the emergency phase."

Before and after The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

The New York Stock Exchange remained closed Tuesday, the first weather-related two-day suspension of trading exchange since an 1888 blizzard.Kent said officials with the Metropolitan Transport Authority expect the flooded subway tunnels to remain closed for anywhere from 14 hours up to four days. The MTA's chief, Joe Lhota, called it the worst disaster in the subway's 108-year-old history.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said late Monday that the worst of the rain had passed for the city, and that the high tide that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides was receding.

New Jersey hit hard

In New Jersey, part of America's oldest nuclear power plant was put on alert after waters from superstorm Sandy rose 1.8 metres above sea level.Officials said water levels near Oyster Creek, which is along the Atlantic Ocean, will likely recede within a few hours. The Oyster Creek nuclear plant went online in 1969 and provides 9 per cent of New Jersey's electricity. The plant was already out of service for scheduled refueling.

HURRICANES Graphic: Inside the eye of a tropical storm

In addition, one of the units of the Indian Point nuclear plant, which is about 72 kilometres north of New York City, was shut down around 10:45 p.m. ET Monday, due to external electrical grid issues, said Entergy Corp., the plant's operator.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said 5,500 people were being housed in shelters, while the Red Cross was moving in to help provide meals for people.Christie said 2.4 million households — double the number affected by Hurricane Irene — were without power.He also advised against unnecessary travel, adding that 24 rail cars had been pushed by the tidal surge on to the New Jersey Turnpike.Christie said it currently unsafe for homeowners to go back to the state's barrier island."The level of devastation at the Jersey Shore is unthinkable," he said.In the town of Moonachie, N.J., a berm overflowed, sending about 1.5 metres of water into the community within 45 minutes. Residents in a trailer park in the town had to climb onto the roofs of their trailers to await rescue. Christie said hundreds of people have been rescued.In Atlantic City, a popular New Jersey tourist destination, the storm washed away a section of the boardwalk. Parts of a seaside amusement park were also washed into the ocean.Christie said he spoke with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to discuss the state's needs as the storm approached. Christie, an outspoken Republican, said he appreciated Obama's leadership in contacting him.

N.S.-built tall ship sinks

The crew of a Nova Scotia-built replica tall ship HMS Bounty abandoned the vessel as it sank off the coast of North Carolina after getting caught in the high seas brought on by Hurricane Sandy. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 14 people.The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday it had recovered the body of a crew member, Claudene Christian, near Hatteras, N.C. The ship's captain is reported to be still missing.
Read more here.In Connecticut, the governor ordered non-essential state employees to stay home from work Tuesday.According to WBUR, a public radio station in Boston, Sandy brought rough weather and strong surf to some coastal areas in Massachusetts. Hundreds of thousands of people in the state were without power late Monday, part of the sweeping outages that were leaving people in the dark in storm-affected areas.People in parts of Pennsylvania were also being cautioned about power outages and wild weather.With just over a week to go before election day, Obama cancelled his campaign events for Tuesday and Wednesday. Republican Mitt Romney planned to turn an Ohio rally into a "storm relief event."

Obama declared emergencies in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, authorizing federal relief work to begin well ahead of time. He promised the government would "respond big and respond fast" after the storm hits.New Jersey Gov. Christie seemed pleased with the president's response so far. Earlier Tuesday, Christie tweeted, "I want to thank the President personally for all his assistance as we recover from the storm."

Projected path for post-tropical storm Sandy
(Canadian Press, Map data: NOAA, OpenStreetMap)

SANDY DEAD TOTAL PUSHING 40
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/10/30/superstorm-sandy-kills-17-across-7-states/ 

Washington D.C. escapes worst of storm Sandy

By Susan Cornwell and Susan Heavey | Reuters –  7:30PM OCT 30,12

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nation's capital appeared to have escaped the worst of the mammoth storm Sandy on Tuesday, although concerns remained about the potential for severe flooding along the Potomac River.Washington, D.C., suffered high winds and rains that brought down trees on some homes and flooded a few roads. But the area got off lightly compared to New York City and New Jersey, where Sandy came ashore on Monday night.More than 4 inches of rain fell over the course of the storm in Washington, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. Although Sandy has moved on, weather officials said flooding was still a concern."Flood and flash flood watches and warnings are in effect over portions of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast states," the weather service said.On Monday, the weather service warned that the storm was expected to cause the worst floods in 16 years along the Potomac River, starting on Tuesday night. This could affect the historic Georgetown neighborhood along the river and parts of the National Mall.So far, the river's waters have swelled, reaching docks and some parkland, but have not yet caused more extensive problems. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray said the main flooding threat was over the next day or two.

"We need to be mindful of what could happen over the next 48 hours," he told a news conference.As for Sandy, it "turned out a whole lot better than expected in the District of Columbia," Gray said. "We are prepared to be helpful if we can" to New York and New Jersey, he added.Washington's Canal Road near the river was closed on Tuesday because of flooding, radio station WTOP said.Power outages in the region appeared to be limited. Just over 139,000 people were without power Tuesday afternoon because of the severe weather, according to a Washington Post website tracking blackouts. The vast majority of these outages were in the suburbs of northern Virginia.In Washington, 10,000 people lost power at the height of the storm, but the number had fallen to 2,000 by Tuesday afternoon, according to PEPCO, the local power company.Federal agencies were scheduled to reopen on Wednesday after being closed for two days because of the storm. Federal workers will be allowed to take unscheduled leave on Wednesday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said.Washington city government and schools were closed Tuesday, but Gray announced both would be open on Wednesday.Gray said there had been 236 calls to the city government about downed trees -- but only 187 were actually trees down, "the rest were limbs and debris."
The Washington transit authority announced it was resuming limited rail service on the Metro on Tuesday afternoon. Normal service will resume on Wednesday.Another sign that life was returning to normal: the DC Taxicab Commission said the surcharge it had authorized drivers to levy during the storm - $15 - expired at noon.There were some reports of storm damage around town. In Washington's small Chinatown, a small metal piece of an ornate arch over the main street came loose and dangled precariously, causing police to block one lane of traffic below.The White House announced President Barack Obama would eschew campaigning for re-election and stay in town Wednesday to oversee the hurricane response.(Reporting by Susan Cornwell and Susan Heavey; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Stacey Joyce)

Lower Manhattan faces up to four days without power: ConEd

By David Sheppard and Scott DiSavino | Reuters – 7:45PM OCT 30,12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Residents of lower Manhattan faced up to four days without power on Tuesday as Consolidated Edison, New York City's power provider, scrambled to repair the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy.Almost every street below Times Square in the city's Midtown district was plunged into darkness on Monday night after an explosion at a Con Edison power station on 14th Street threw the electricity provider's plans for controlled shutdowns into disarray.The prolonged blackout in the most populous and wealthiest of New York City's five boroughs is in stark contrast to last year's Hurricane Irene, when the island of Manhattan was largely spared the power cuts that hit the surrounding region.Almost 250,000 homes and businesses on Manhattan were without power as of 2pm EDT on Tuesday, Con Ed said, more than the total outages in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx combined. The vast majority of those were below 39th Street in Midtown.The figures cover buildings rather than individuals, meaning the total number of people affected will be far higher."This is the largest storm-related outage in our history," said Sara Banda, a spokeswoman for Con Edison."We try to restore lines that will get power to the most customers possible, but it will depend on the equipment."Con Edison said it estimated customers served by underground electric equipment, like in Manhattan, should have power back within four days.Banda said customers affected by the explosion at the East River power station should be among those. Some customers may see power restored sooner, but on Tuesday Con Edison appeared keen to manage expectations.It was not clear if the explosion was caused by the near-14 foot (4.2 meter) storm surge or by something else.Remarkably, no one was injured in the huge explosion that was captured on video by residents of Brooklyn and put on YouTube. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ )

Customers served by overhead power lines could be without power for at least a week, Con Edison said.

In total, around a quarter of New York City's buildings are without power as of Tuesday afternoon.
THE NEW BLACKOUT
The area below Times Square, includes some of Manhattan's trendiest -- and wealthiest -- neighborhoods.
In areas like Tribeca, Chelsea and Gramercy Park that are popular with celebrities, the fashion world, hedge fund managers and media figures, two bedroom apartments routinely rent for more than $6,000 a month according to New York City rental website nakedapartments.com. That is more than $5,000 above the average monthly rent across the nation.Beyond the power cuts, damage was relatively limited around the West Village. Some scaffolding had fallen down in the area and maintenance men were in the process of cleaning up.On Tuesday afternoon, Hudson River Park from Houston Street to 14th Street, people were trying to get back to normal. The park was filled with hand-holding couples, joggers and owners of high-maintenance pets. Many people looked like they were enjoying an unexpected day off.Outages on Manhattan outstripped the 180,000 in the suburbs of Westchester County to the north of the city, where overhead power lines normally mean it is more exposed to storms than the island's largely subterranean electricity network.A further 109,000 homes and businesses in Staten Island were without power, Con Edison said. Across the Hudson River, almost two-thirds of New Jersey's residents were enduring black outs, according to the Department of Energy.In total, over 8.2 million homes and businesses lost power in the United States because of Sandy, the DOE said. The blackouts stretched from North Carolina to the Canadian border and as far inland as Ohio and Indiana.In seven states, including Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 20 percent or more of all customers were without power.(Reporting by David Sheppard and Scott DiSavino; Editing by Alden Bentley)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related

STOCK RESULTS TUE OCT 30,12


DOW CLOSED DUE TO HURRICANE

S&P 500 CLOSED DUE TO HURRICANE

NASDAQ CLOSED DUE TO HURRICANE

GOLD1,708.70 -3.20

OIL 85.54 -0.74

TSE 300 12,377.05 +64.30

CDNX 1302.92 +11.49

S&P/TSX/60 709.95 +4.29

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

THESE ARE CANADAS RESULTS ONLY.THERE SAYING THE STOCK MARKETS WILL BE OPEN TOMORROW.BUT WE WILL SEE ON THAT ONE WHEN TOMORROW COMES.

Shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off B.C. coast

Paul Tait, Reuters | Oct 29, 2012 11:30 PM ET | Last Updated: Oct 29, 2012 11:36 PM ET

SYDNEY — A shallow earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck off British Columbia province on Canada’s west coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, the second powerful earthquake in the region in two days.The quake, at a depth of about 10 kilometres, was centred about 245 km southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and struck at about 10.29 p.m. on Monday, the USGS said.The quake was not expected to generate a tsunami, the USGS’s Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement.
A tsunami warning was issued for Hawaii after a magnitude 7.7 quake hit off the coast of British Columbia late on Saturday.That tsunami advisory was cancelled early on Sunday after smaller than anticipated waves reached the U.S. island group in the Pacific without causing any major damage.Thousands of people in Hawaii had fled to higher ground before the warning was cancelled.