The northwest moving Hurricane Sandy is giving sleepless nights to communities across eastern coast in the US. Flights are being canceled, transit systems are being suspended, New york stock exchange, Schools, College are expected to be shut for the next 48 hours. In awe of the fearful weather, lives in eastern coast of the US have come to a standstill and are likely to remain so during the next 48 hours.The situation has aggravated to dangerous levels as the storm is likely to collide with the western cold front to cause heavy rain, massive snowfall in the mainland while high tides would bring flash floods in the coastal areas. The affected cities are Cape Hatteras, Charleston, Washington, Pittsburgh, New York, Syracuse, Boston and Burlington.
As rain from the leading edges of the monster Sandy began to fall over the Northeast, hundreds of thousands of people from Maryland to Connecticut were ordered to evacuate low-lying coastal areas, including 375,000 in lower Manhattan and other parts of New York City, 50,000 in Delaware and 30,000 in Atlantic City.
