Sandy May Drive Subway Rats onto NYC Streets

Posted: 30 Oct 2012

Part of a crane boom is seen hanging off a building under construction on West 57th Street.on October 29, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of all New York City will bus, subway and commuter rail service as of Sunday evening.

Crane ikivunjika kutokana na upepo mkali kwenye jengo lililokua
linajengwa Mtaa wa West 57th Manhattan, New York. Mpaka
sasa hizi ni watu 16, wameipoteza maisha wengi wao kuangukiwa na miti
kutokana na Hurricane Sandy na watu milioni 7 hawana umeme

Dark clouds are seen over the skyline of Manhattan as as Hurricane Sandy begins to affect the area on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of all New York City will bus, subway and commuter rail service as of Sunday evening.

Jiji la Manhattan likiwa limegubikwa na wingu zito la Hurricane
Sandy na huku likiwa kwenye kiza kinene

A worker has a picture taken they close down the Holland Tunnel ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in New York City. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closing of the tunnel , as well as the Battery Tunnel at 2:00 pm because of flooding worries as Hurricane Sandy moves up the east coast.

Holland Tunnel New York City, New York ikiwa imefungwa,
Holland Tunnel ni daraja linalopita chini ya maji ya mto Hudson
unaotenganisha New York na New Jersey

People walk across Beach Ave. as flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rush in on October 29, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. Later today the full force of Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and floodwaters.

Maji ya bahari yakifurika mitaani katika mji wa Atlantic City, New Jersey

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 29 People walk down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy moves up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie?s emergency declaration is shutting down the city?s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.

Mitaa ya Atlantic City ikiwa imefurika maji

Water floods a street ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie?s emergency declaration is shutting down the city?s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.

Mitaa ya Atlantic City ikianza kujaa maji ya Hurricane Sandy

Flood waters begin to flood a street near the ocean ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie?s emergency declaration is shutting down the city?s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.

Mitaa ya Atlantic City ikianza kuathirika na mafuriko

Jerry Smith of South Long Beach Avenue watches his dogs take a dip in the flooded street in front of his home as high tide and winds from Hurricane Sandy combine to flood the area on October 29, 2012 in Freeport, New York. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Jerry Smith akiangalia mbwa wake wakichezea maji yaliyoanza kujaa
kwenye mtaa wa South Long Beach ulopo Freeport, New York.

A man makes his way up a flooded Guy Lomardo Avenue as high tide and winds from Hurricane Sandy combine to flood the area on October 29, 2012 in Freeport, New York. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Mitaa iliyopo Freeport, New York.

People make their way up a flooded Guy Lomardo Avenue as high tide and winds from Hurricane Sandy combine to flood the area on October 29, 2012 in Freeport, New York. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Wakaazi wa mji huu wa Freeport, New York wakijaribu kuondoka
baada ya kuona maji yanazidi kujaa Kwa picha zaidi bofya read more

People take pictures on the Rockaway Beach Boulevard as Hurricane Sandy begins to affect the area on October 29, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of all New York City's bus, subway and commuter rail service as of Sunday evening.

Mitaa ya Queens, New York

Flood waters inundate a street near the ocean ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie?s emergency declaration is shutting down the city?s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.

Mitaa ya New Jersey

Waves crash over Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Hurricane Sandy, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow to a wide area on the U.S. East Coast.

Hapa ni winthrop, Massachusetts

Atlantic city New Jersey

Atlantic City

Joseph Arpaio of Massapequa abondons his car on 5th Street in Lindenhurst as high tide, rain and winds flood local streets on October 29, 2012 in Lindenhurst, New York. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Jamaa wanatembea kwa miguu baada ya gari yao kuzimika
kwenye mji waLindenhurst, New York

A house on Baylawn Avenue is partially submerged as high tide, rain and winds flood local streets on October 29, 2012 in Copaigue, New York. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Nyumba ikiwa imeningirwa na maji kwenye mji wa Copaique,
New York

A lone figure makes his way down 7th Street as high tide, rain and winds flood local streets on October 29, 2012 in Lindenhurst, New York. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Mitaa ya Copaique, New York

Long Beach Police officer stand on the boardwalk watching the heavy surf from Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. Hurricane Sandy, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Afisa wa Polisi wa Long Beach akipata ukodaka moment

A motorist makes a u-turn on Kramer Drive as a tree is felled by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Lindenhurst, New York.The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Miti ikiwa imeanza kuanguka kama unavyoona kwenye huu mji wa Lindenhurst,
New York

Hii kitu ni nzito lakini angalia ilivyonyanyuliwa na upepo na kutupwa kwenye
nyaya za umeme hapa ni Long Island

JFK ikiwaimefurika maji

Maji yakiwa yamefurika kwenye njia za kurukia ndege LaGuardia airport,
New York

New York's longest night:

Manhattan goes dark,

6 MILLION without

power and 14 dead as

Sandy throws 13 foot wall

of water at US

Posted: 29 Oct 2012

Frantic: Paramedics evacuate patients from New York University Tisch

Hospital after a power outage left 5.7million people in the dark

Concerns: Medics help a patient into an ambulance

during an evacuation of NYU Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed

Red alert: Emergency vehicles snake around

a corner outside the NYU Medical Center

Painstaking care: Ambulances line up outside Tisch as

doctors and nurses begin the slow process of taking people out

hurricane hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night (11:30pm GMT),

having laid waste to large parts of the coast throughout the day.

ew York city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock

exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of

New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of Sandy as it

zeroed in on the largest city in the US. a 13 foot wall of water caused

by the storm surge and high tides caused floodwater to rush into the

Hoboken PATH train station in New Jersey. Power was cut across

lower Manhattan in a bid to minimise damage to infrastructure

Howling: Conditions in New Jersey deteriorate as the superstorm
makes landfall, causing widespread destruction

Slammed: People take shelter on the flooded pier as the effects
of Hurricane Sandy are felt in Rockaway Beach, New York.

Emergency: Braving horrendous conditions, a worker uses a
chainsaw to cut up a felled tree that knocked over a street light in York City,
Pennsylvania, as Superstorm Sandy continues on its path.

Ground Zero: The construction site at Ground Zero is inundated
by flood waters in Lower Manhattan

Power out: Lower Manhattan goes dark as Hurricane Sandy sweeps
across America's East Coast, causing untold damage and putting lives at risk

Submerged: Cars disappear from view as water rises in New York's
flood-hit financial district, which lay in Hurricane Sandy's path

Submerged: Water from Manhattan's East River floods East
20th Street during Hurricane Sandy

Dangerous: A woman wades through the water in New York as
cars become submerged in the floods

Floods: Vehicles are submerged during a storm surge near the
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York

Dramatic: A CCTV monitor shows floodwater rushing into the subway
system in New York as Hurricane Sandy causes widespread devastation

Waves in the city: Streets are flooded under the Manhattan
Bridge in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York.

Waterproofs: Wearing wellington boots and a hooded jacket,
a resident navigates the flooded streets of the Dumbo
neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York Sandy had laid waste to
large parts of the coast throughout the day, leaving more than two
million without power in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia while whole cities
have been flooded and billions of dollars of damage expected.

But as darkness fell, Sandy was about to make landfall at Cape May,
New Jersey. Winds rose up to 90mph with fresh warnings that
the 'most severe part of the storm is now beginning'.

Storm surges of more than 12ft have already been recorded
in Long Island, with waters rising quickly in Lower Manhattan as high
tide approaches. Howling winds of 100mph have been reported on the
RFK Bridge in upper Manhattan as gales were expected to last for hours.

A below-ground carpark in the Financial District of New York floods
as waters rushes into the garage

All Broadway shows had been cancelled on Monday evening.

Utilities company ConEd had called customers to warn it will shut
off power lines across Manhattan and Brooklyn, meaning millions
more will be affected. Consolidated Edison spokesman Chris Olert said
on Monday evening that the power was out for most of Manhattan
south of 26th Street. On the east side, the power outage extended
from 29th Street south. There were some scattered areas that
still had electricity. Olert said the damage stemmed from flooding
and the probable loss of a transmission feeder.

The power outage was separate from a planned power cut that Con
Ed did in certain lower Manhattan neighborhoods to protect underwater
systems from flood damage. Olert said there were 250,000 customers
without power in Manhattan. A customer represents a single meter,
so the number of people actually affected is likely higher.
The company shut off power in 200,000 homes in the area in last
year's Hurricane Irene - but this year's storm packs a much fiercer punch.

Atlantic City officials were trying to rescue around 500 people trapped
in their homes during the direct hit. Most of the city's 40,000 residents
had evacuated as directed.

Concern: Governor Andrew Cuomo (centre) inspects a deluge of
water flooding the Battery Tunnel in Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy
approaches New York

Crash: A fallen tree with its roots ripped from the road and a power
line lie over homes on Harvard Street in Garden City, New York

Here it comes! Hurricane Sandy barrels into Cape May, New Jersey today

Ferocious: The storm kicks off in Southampton, New York today
as the brutal weather conditions bear down on the East Coast

Saved: An elderly man is rescued by volunteer firemen in West Atlantic City,
New Jersey, as the hurricane causes colossal damage to East Coast towns and cities

All along the waterfront: A police car patrols the waterfront in Brooklyn,
New York this evening as Sandy batters the Big Apple

Here it comes: The waves rise in Edgewater, New Jersey as
Hurricane Sandy lashes the East Coast

Landfall: Ocean waves kick up near homes along
Peggoty Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts

Making waves: Heavy surf crashes over a seawall during
the early stages of Hurricane Sandy in Kennebunk, Maine

Threatening: Rising water from the Hudson River overtakes
a bank drive-through in Edgewater, New Jersey

Vicious: Waves crash against a previously damaged pier in Atlantic City,
New Jersey

before landfall of Hurricane Sandy before flooding communities

Wide open: A row of houses stands in floodwaters at

Grassy Sound in North Wildwood, New Jersey as Hurricane Sandy
pounds the East Coast

Beached: A boat washes ashore on Carson Beach as wind and waves from
Hurricane Sandy hit the north-east coast of the US

Uharibifu uliofanwa na kimbunga Sandy New York City

Kazi ya usafi sambamba na uokozi inaendelea
katika majiji mbalimbali Marekani

Jiji la New jersey lilivyoharibiwa

Nyumba zaidi ya mia moja zimewaka moto ukiachilia
mbali magari na mali nyingine

Wananchi wakiangalia mabaki ya nyumba zao

Barabara zote za chini zimejaa maji

Mtoto akiokolewa maeneo ya Manhattan, New York

Njia za reli na barabara sikiwa zimeharibiwa vibaya

Watu wakiendelea kuokolewa New York

Jiji la Toronto linavyoonekana leo

Nyumba bado zimezungukwa na maji Grassy Sound kaskazini
mwa Wildwood, New York

Boti iliyojikuta katikati ya njia za reli baada ya kimbunga Sandy

New York Financial District

Yadi ya magari ikiwa imefunikw ana maji

BAADHI YA UHARIBIFU ULIOFANYWA NA HURRICANE SANDY

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 08:35 AM PDT

Boats are seen piled up after being thrown off their stands by

Hurricane Sandy at a marina in Bay Shore, New York

Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the

New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150

Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard

Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the

New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150

Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard

Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the

New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission

A man looks at a damaged house in Seagate Association,

a gated community, after last night's Hurricane Sandy in New York

A woman stands in a street damaged by rising waters in

Seagate Association, a gated community, after last night's

Hurricane Sandy in New York

A man looks inside a cottage along Roy Carpenter's Beach

that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Matunuck, Rhode Island

Tom and Deidre Duffy look through the wreckage of their home

devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy are seen

the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York

New York's subways swamped after Sandy

Benches stand flooded by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy

in Shinnecock Hills, New York, the monster storm bearing down

on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of

thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down

and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years.

Damage from the storm surge and wind created by Hurricane Sandy

is seen in the greatly affected community of Atlantique on Fire Island,

New York. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of the

whipping winds and heavy rains of the massive storm Sandy on

Tuesday as New York City and many parts of the eastern United States

struggled with epic flooding and extensive power outages.

Sandy floods causes power outages. Superstorm Sandy battered

New York City on Monday, leaving entire sections of Manhattan

without power and flooding tunnels

Debris from the storm surge and winds created by

Hurricane Sandy lie near a damaged house in the heavily

affected community of Atlantique on Fire Island, New York,

Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke

on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm

Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the

nation's most densely populated region, swamped

New York's subway system and submerged streets

in Manhattan's financial district

Picha: from Vijimambo na Goldentz blogs

Sandy May Drive Subway Rats onto NYC Streets

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com

New Yorkers may see an unwanted group of refugees in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — the rats that live in the city's subway tunnels.

As of Noon on Tuesday (Oct. 30), seven subway tunnels under the East River had flooded due toHurricane Sandy, and many of the other subterranean lairs the seemingly invincible creatures inhabit were also inundated. That may push the rodent survivors of the deluge onto the New York streets.

"Most of the rats that are living there will actually drown," said Herwig Leirs, a rodentologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

While rats can swim or float for up to four days, they may get trapped without air in small pipes and crannies as they seek higher ground, Leirs told LiveScience.

The rushing water will also work against them.

"Rats will be carried away by the current and won't be strong enough to swim to the surface and breathe, or they'll be pushed to grates, they will get stuck there and they won't be strong enough to swim against the current," he said.

Baby rats will perish unless their mothers can carry them to safety, wrote Robert M. Corrigan, a rodentologist who works with the city of New York on its pest problem, in an email. Even those who survive the flooding will be doomed unless they can find a safe shelter with lots of food, he said.

Fewer rats, more visible

If the water is pumped out quickly, many rats will remain underground. The floodwaters likely brought a bonanza of garbage for vermin to feast on in the underground tunnels, Leirs said.

But if water lingers underground for several days, subway rats may pop up aboveground, Leirs said. And the deserted, debris-strewn streets of New York will provide ample food and shelter for the lucky few that survived, he added.

"At least for the first few days, you will expect that rats will be a bit more bold," Leirs said.

Rodents hit a similar trashy jackpot in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina swept through in 2005, bringing plenty of garbage and shelter in empty buildings, according to news reports. Hurricane Isaac, however, washed ashore tens of thousands of dead "swamp rats," whose rotting corpses presented quite a health hazard in Mississippi.

Disease risk

Some 28 million rats have been reported to lurk in the dark, wet subway tunnels of New York City, though official numbers are hard to come by. Whether these rats, post-flooding, pose a human health risk will depend on how quickly water above ground evaporates and how quickly subway crews can clean out the tunnels.

Rats can carry leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that causes fever, nausea and occasionally meningitis. If rats urinate in stagnant pools of water, people with open wounds who come in contact with the water could become infected, Leirs said.

Repair crews may encounter a gory sight when reentering the tunnels: Tons of dead rats, Leirs said. But with the city's debris swept underground, that may be the least of their concerns.

"I am sure they will find much more gruesome things than some dead rats," Leirs said.

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