Preparing for Superstorm – Hurricane Sandy

Author: jone Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2575

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A driver maneuvers his classic American car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba on Thursday. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)

A man walks amid the ruins of a home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba. (Photo by Franklin Reyes/Associated Press)

Waves brought by Hurricane Sandy crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country's most populous city on Wednesday. (Photo by Collin Reid/Associated Press)

A woman cries out in front of her flooded house after heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press)

Residents stand on a bridge that was previously destroyed in 2008 by Tropical Storm Gustav, while watching Hope River swell in the village of Kintyre, near Kingston, Jamaica, after the passing of Hurricane Sandy on Thursday. Sandy, which made landfall Wednesday afternoon near Kingston, crossed over Jamaica killing an elderly man when a boulder crashed into his clapboard house, police said. (Photo by Collin Reid/Associated Press)

Residents wade through a street flooded by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press)

A woman peers from the doorway of her cement home that is being built within the frame of a wooden home, which was partially knocked down as Hurricane Sandy passed through Gibara, Cuba. (Photo by Franklin Reyes/Associated Press)

A man rides his bicycle under the arc made by a tree knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba. (Photo by Franklin Reyes/Associated Press)

Matt Francis holds onto his hat as the wind-driven sand and rain from Hurricane Sandy blows across the beaches of Sandbridge in Virginia Beach. (Photo by L. Todd Spencer/The Virginian-Pilot)

Sandbags are placed in front of No. 2 Broadway in Manhattan's Battery Park on Sunday. (Photo by Louis Lanzano/Associated Press)

Alison Reed pushes against the wind Friday afternoon on the north jetty in Palm Beach. (Photo by Jeffrey Langlois/Palm Beach Daily News)

High winds blow sea foam onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area on Sunday. (Photo by Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

Multiple agencies work in preparation for Hurricane Sandy at the Virginia Emergency Operations Center in Chesterfield County. (Photo by Mark Gormus/Richmond Times-Dispatch)

President Barack Obama speaks during a briefing at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, with FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, at right, in Washington on Sunday. FEMA is coordinating the deployment of federal resources in preparation for Hurricane Sandy's assault on the Northeast. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)

Nick Almeter prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy as he carries sandbags to place by properties along Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday. (Photo by Ross Taylor/The Virginian-Pilot)

In this image taken by NOAA's GOES East at 2:45 GMT on Friday, Hurricane Sandy is seen in the center bottom. It is expected to move north, just off the eastern seaboard. When Hurricane Sandy becomes a hybrid weather monster some call [Frankenstorm] it will smack the East Coast harder and wider than last year's damaging Irene, forecasters said Friday. (Photo by NOAA)

District of Columbia Department of Public Works workers pass out free sandbags to DC residents in Washington on Sunday. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)

High winds blow sea foam into the air as a person walks across Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina. (Photo by Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

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