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Power Outages and Minor Flooding Around WNY in the Wake of Sandy....
Scroll Down for Complete Coverage of Sandy's effects in WNY From Beginning to End
ON-DEMAND AUDIO FROM THE WBEN LIVELINE:
TONY ANSUINI-NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLGIST
SAM BERG- HASKELL'S TREE SERVICE
DAN NEAVERTH, JR- COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DIR
NYSEG Update 7am
National Grid Update 6am
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Flood Watch for All of WNY Including Erie, Catttaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming Counties |
THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE SANDY WILL TRACK INLAND ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA AND BRING A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN TO MUCH OF WESTERN NY AND PORTIONS OF THE FINGER LAKES. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR 1.25 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. THIS WILL FALL ON GROUND WHICH IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM RAIN THIS WEEKEND. * RAINFALL OF THIS MAGNITUDE MAY RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LEAVES CLOGGING STORM DRAINS WILL ALSO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN URBANIZED AREAS. IN ADDITION... FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ON SOME OF THE AREA RIVERS AND CREEKS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON CURRENT FORECASTS. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP. |
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High Wind Warning for Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties |
LOCATIONS: THE NIAGARA FRONTIER AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN TIER. STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORE SOUTH OF STURGEON POINT AND ACROSS HIGHER TERRAIN. TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS...NORTH 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH A SATURATED GROUND WILL RESULT IN DOWNED TREES WHICH CAN BLOCK ROADWAYS AND TAKE OUT POWER LINES. IT IS UNUSUAL TO GET WINDS THIS STRONG FROM A NORTHERLY DIRECTION. TREES IN THIS AREA ARE ANCHORED AGAINST THE PREVAILING WEST WIND...SO STRONG WINDS FROM THE NORTH WILL PRODUCE MORE WIND DAMAGE THAN NORMAL FOR THESE WIND SPEEDS. PINE TREES WITH THEIR SHALLOW ROOT SYSTEMS WILL BE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO BEING TOPPLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES, POWER LINES, AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. IF YOU HAVE A HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES BE EXTRA CAREFUL UNTIL THE WIND SUBSIDES |
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Lakeshore Flood Warning for Niagara, Orleans and Monroe Counties |
LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT TO 8 AM EDT TUESDAY... * LOCATIONS...SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO * LAKE SHORE FLOODING: STRONG NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE VERY HIGH WAVES AND RISING WATER ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF THE LAKE. * TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...FLOODING IS MOST LIKELY IN BAYS AND INLETS... INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BRADDOCK BAY AND SURROUNDING PONDS...IRONDEQUOIT BAY, SODUS BAY, PORT BAY AND LITTLE SODUS BAY. RISING WATER LEVELS IN HARBORS MAY BREAK BOATS FROM THEIR MOORINGS. |
ALSO .... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* FLOOD WARNING FOR
THE CAYUGA CREEK NEAR LANCASTER
* UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON.
* AT 3 AM TUESDAY THE STAGE WAS 7.5 FEET AND RISING.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 8.0 FEET.
* MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE EARLY
THIS MORNING AND CREST NEAR 8.7 FEET THIS MORNING.
* IMPACT...AT 8.0 FEET...FLOOD STAGE...MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING
AREAS OF LANCASTER AND ALDEN.
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Amtrak is suspending its Empire and Lake Shore service. The Maple Leaf will terminate at Albany, instead of continuing on to New York City.
Megabus runs to New York City and Toronto are canceled Monday. |
| At a Glance: How to handle a flight cancellation | |
| Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall Monday night or early Tuesday, likely in New Jersey. It will tie up with other weather systems and form a so-called superstorm. Airlines have preemptively canceled thousands of flights in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and elsewhere. But the storm's affects are already being felt far away from the East Coast. | |
| Hurricane Sandy grounds thousands of flights | |
| Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast Monday and upended travel plans across the globe, stranding passengers from Hong Kong to Europe. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. | |
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Gov. Cuomo & EMS Officials Monday Morning Briefing |
WBEN's Tom Bauerle with Meterologist Dave Zaff |
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Erie County Exec Mark Poloncarz
On The WBEN Liveline |
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's
WNY Storm Briefing (Sunday) |
COMPLETE COVERAGE: FLOOD WARNING For Cayuga Creek FLOOD WATCH For All of WNY HIGH WIND WARNING for All of WNY LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING Niagara & Orleans Co |
Flights, Trains & Bus Lines Canceled See The Latest HERE WHERE IS HURRICANE SANDY NOW? Check The Storm Tracker |
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"This is the worst-case scenario," said Louis Uccellini, environmental prediction chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
As rain from the leading edges began to fall over the Northeast on Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people from Maryland to Connecticut were ordered to leave 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, N.J., where the city's 12 casinos shut down for only the fourth time ever. Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds, soaking rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet tall.
Sandy stayed on a predicted path that could take it over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York on its way to a collision course with two other weather systems, creating a superstorm with the potential for havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. About 2 to 3 feet of snow were even forecast for mountainous parts of West Virginia. |
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Elsewhere......
On The
WBEN Liveline |
In New York City:
CBS Moneywatch's Jill Schlesinger |
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In Atlantic City NJ: CBS's Heather Bosch |
In Washington DC
CBS's Howard Arenstein |