Hurricane Sandy 2012: Online pranksters spoof deadly superstorm with Titanic, Grease and shark send-ups. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 11:31 GMT, 30 October 2012 | Updated: 15:46 GMT, 31 October 2012 President Barack Obama may have declared a 'major disaster' in New York and Long Island, but that hasn't stopped waves of Superstorm Sandy-related memes from washing across the Internet. As the fierce weather-front continues to batter the north-east corner, it has already been subjected to widespread Photoshop work.
Dozens of Twitter users have pointed out that the storm shares a name with Olivia Newton-John's character from the 1978 movie Grease. Scroll down for video Too soon? Sandy's coming: The Statue of Liberty statue cowers behind her base Same idea: Lots of Twitter users made up images of shark swimming down suburban streets Others drew 'humorous' comparisons with Sandy Cheeks, the adventurous squirrel from the Nickelodeon show SpongeBob SquarePants. 'Dear Spongebob, please keep Sandy under control. Twitter users joked that the storm was actually produced by SpongeBob's friend Sandy Cheeks. Hurricane Sandy pictures: Lower Manhattan's desparate search of a wi-fi signal. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 05:23 GMT, 31 October 2012 | Updated: 23:23 GMT, 28 November 2012 With most of lower Manhattan without power, group of New Yorkers eager to charge their electrical gadgets or seeking wi-fi have been forced to roam the island in search of what are suddenly rare commodities.
Since being plunged into darkness by Hurricane Sandy, many Manhattanites have been forced to trek north of 39th Street to where there still is power in a desperate bid to charge their smart phones, iPads, Kindles and Nooks. Chase ATMs, branches of Duane Reade drugstores and in fact anywhere with a spare electrical outlet have become mass meeting points crammed full of people - some smart enough to bring extension cords - to power up their devices. We need power: Groups of people have flocked to Starbucks stores and other store branches in Manhattan in a bid to get wi-fi service after Hurricane Sandy hit on Monday. Hurricane Sandy 2012: Bloomberg warns New York faces 'days' in darkness. Infrastructure in America's largest city struggles to resume business after post-tropical storm causes damageHomes damaged, streets flooded and city plunged into darkness, causing misery and chaos for millions of residentsFloodwater causes electrical substation to explode, causing power outages in ManhattanResidents demand answers as officials remain vague over when New York can expect to get back on its feetCity Mayor Michael Bloomberg says 643,000 New Yorkers are without powerMayor admits it could take up to five days to have the city's subway system fully running again, though limited service will begin Thursday at 6am Governor Andrew Cuomo: 'It was as bad as anything I have experienced in New York' By Lydia Warren and Beth Stebner Published: 16:25 GMT, 30 October 2012 | Updated: 13:21 GMT, 1 November 2012 Manhattan will be restored to full power by Friday at the earliest after Hurricane Sandy plunged the lower half of the island into darkness on Monday night.
Scroll down for video. Hurricane Sandy 2012: Obama declares 'major disaster' in New York as 39 people die in Superstorm. City of water: A flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy. It hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night having laid waste to large parts of the coast throughout the day Power storm: The full force of the storm is evident by the way a metal shutter has been ripped from the wall Submerged: The lobby of Verizon's Corporate headquarters in Manhattan. The headquarter houses executive offices as well as some of the company's key telecom equipment that supports services to New York's financial district Operation clean-up: Debris litters a flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy Mission: A man clears leaves from a sewer drain in lower Manhattan to help the flooding ease The storm caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of New York's extensive subway system, according to Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Superstorm Sandy devastation seen from above as Obama flies in to visit New Jersey victims. Superstorm Sandy has claimed lives of at least 55 people on US East Coast with New Jersey and NYC badly affectedObama skips campaign events in battleground states in favour of visit to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's stateGov Christie: 'We've got a big task ahead of us that we have to do together. This is what New Jerseyans are built for'Obama will return to campaign trail tomorrow with trips to Green Bay, Wisconsin; Boulder, Colorado; and Las Vegas By Mark Duell and Toby Harnden and Lydia Warren Published: 17:08 GMT, 30 October 2012 | Updated: 20:20 GMT, 31 October 2012 These are the heartbreaking pictures of homes and communities across the US East Coast ravaged by a deadly superstorm that has shocked the world.
Scroll down for videos No play: This US Air Force photo shows an aerial view of the rollercoaster from the Seaside Heights amusement park on the New Jersey shore submerged in surf Governor Christie is a prominent supporter of Mr Romney and a frequent critic of the President. Breezy Point fire: How New York City fire crews fought to save their homes. Inferno was sparked by downed power lines and spread through rows of apartmentsFire engines could get nowhere near the cluster of burning buildingsBlaze spread rapidly between homes with families stranded above the waterFirefighters waded into chest-deep water and paddled boats into the flames to save peopleRockaways in Queens was in a mandatory evacuation zone, but dozens decided to stay and weather the storm By Michael Zennie and Emma Reynolds Published: 04:14 EDT, 30 October 2012 | Updated: 16:57 EDT, 15 November 2012 The aerial pictures of the devastation that wrecked Queens and struck at the heart of the close-knit community of Breezy Point.
A disastrous combination of overwhelming waves, rapid winds and a resulting fire brought a neighborhood of homes to the ground. The foundations of over one hundred homes are clearly visible, giving a grisly picture of the ferocity of the damage. Scroll down for video... Conservative Party chairman Michael Long also lost his house. What's left? Hurricane Sandy 2012: Superstorm forces coffins of the dead to rise up from the ground. Sheer force of flood water swelled burial ground in Crisfield, MarylandTwo caskets, one silver and the other bronze, rose up from the ground By James Nye Published: 08:01 GMT, 31 October 2012 | Updated: 11:03 GMT, 31 October 2012 After having leveled huge swathes of New York City and the East Coast as it rampaged through the region on Monday night, superstorm Sandy inflicted a final indignity as it caused coffins to rise from their graves. At one cemetery in Crisfield, Maryland, two caskets, one silver and the other bronze, rose up from the ground as the sheer force of the water unleashed by Sandy swelled the ground.
Powerful enough to dislodge the cement slabs that covered the graves, the sad sight indicated the indiscriminate bombardment that mother nature brought to reign over the U.S. Scroll down for video Coffins have risen out of the graves in which they were placed in Crisfield, MD, after superstorm Sandy struck VIDEO: Residents and business owners clean up after storm in Ocean City. Superstorm Sandy: Death toll hits FIFTY and damage set to top $50BILLION. 50 dead and the number is expected to rise as clean-up and recovery missions beginPresident Obama to visit ravaged New Jersey today describing the storm as a major disasterGovernor Chris Christie said whole stretches of Jersey Shore washed into the seaCost of damage estimated at $50bn - and eight million homes remain without power By Louise Boyle Published: 03:26 GMT, 30 October 2012 | Updated: 13:21 GMT, 31 October 2012 The devastating aftermath of Superstorm Sandy began to emerge this morning as the death toll hit 50 and damage was expected to reach $50billion.
As the superstorm passed over the region, startling before-and-after pictures revealed what was left of the East Coast. At first glance, New Jersey's Mantoloking Bridge appeared to be completely different highways - until it becomes clear that just one solitary house was left standing. Scroll down for video Before the storm: The horizon over the Mantoloking Bridge was once dotted with row after row of Atlantic vacation homes. Hurricane Sandy 2012: Shocked Obama flies over Atlantic City disaster zone. President takes one-hour helicopter tour over Atlantic Coast, viewing flooded homes and wrecked buildingsSuperstorm Sandy has claimed lives of at least 76 people on East Coast with New Jersey and NYC badly affectedObama skipped campaigning in battleground states in favour of visit to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's stateGov Christie: 'We've got a big task ahead of us that we have to do together. This is what New Jerseyans are built for'Obama will return to campaign trail today with trips to Green Bay, Wisconsin; Boulder, Colorado; and Las Vegas By Mark Duell and Toby Harnden and Lydia Warren and Rob Preece Published: 17:30 GMT, 31 October 2012 | Updated: 14:17 GMT, 1 November 2012 President Obama took time out from the campaign trail yesterday to visit a stretch of the devastated New Jersey coast and take on a role of comforter-in-chief that could be a major boost to his hopes of re-election next week.
Scroll down for videos ‘We are not going to tolerate red tape,’ he said. Hurricane Sandy aftermath: Desperate search for Staten Island brothers Connor and Brandon Moore lost in storm. Connor and Brandon Moore were separated from their mother when her car was submerged at Capodanno Boulevard in South Beach, Staten IslandPolice are using canoes, police dogs, and scuba divers to search the area By Michael Zennie Published: 21:34 GMT, 31 October 2012 | Updated: 14:28 GMT, 1 November 2012 Hope is fading in the desperate search for two young boys who were torn from their mother’s arms as she tried to walk to safety during the height of Superstorm Sandy on Monday night.
Connor and Brandon Moore, aged two and four, were swept away in the rushing storm surge after their mother, Glenda Moore, pulled them out of her SUV and tried to wade through the flood water in Staten Island, New York. Dozens of police divers and firefighters called off their search as darkness fell last night – 48 hours after the brothers disappeared into the storm. Scroll down for video The boys were reported missing in the aftermath of Sandy, which hit the borough hard with flooding. Hurricane Sandy: New York City divided in Super-storm's devastating wake.
By Emily Anne Epstein and Daniel Bates Published: 01:21 GMT, 31 October 2012 | Updated: 13:10 GMT, 31 October 2012 In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Manhattan became a city divided in two - above 39th Street and below 39th street. The reason for the split? Above 39th Street the power never went off. Early on Tuesday morning there were joggers in Riverside Park and dog walkers taking pets out for a stroll.
Below 39th Street: Debris is pictured on Bowery, one of the areas where the power went out New York's governor Andrew Cuomo has paid tribute to 'the courage of New Yorkers and the spirit of New yorkers and how New Yorkers really are at their best when things are at their toughest.' Shops were open, the sun was shining. South of 39th Street things were quite different. On the surface, the rhythms of the city were the same, but look a little closer and one can spot the cracks.
South of 39th Street one's phone signal fails, as does the 3G connection. 'I have to pay the lease. Maddy Pagano, 23. Hurricane Sandy: Historic photograph captures moment one of the world's most powerful cities went black. By Helen Pow and Leslie Larson Published: 03:42 GMT, 4 November 2012 | Updated: 17:03 GMT, 4 November 2012 A spectacular photograph has captured the historic moment the lights went out over half of Manhattan. Taken by photographer Iwan Baan from the air, the incredible image, which is splashed across the cover of this week's New York Magazine, shows the Island of Manhattan half aglow and half in dark.
Hurricane Sandy left thousands without electricity when it struck on Monday evening, and the confronting, yet beautiful, photo encapsulates how one of the world's most powerful cities was rendered powerless in an instant by mother nature. Scroll down for video Historic: Taken by photographer Iwan Baan from the air, the incredible image, which is splashed across the cover of this week's New York Magazine, shows the Island of Manhattan half aglow and half in dark But the situation in lower Manhattan, which became known as SoPo - or the area South of Power - became dire. Hurricane Sandy: Heart-warming photos show how Eastcoasters rocked by Sandy came together in their time of need with random acts of generosity. By Helen Pow Published: 18:50 GMT, 4 November 2012 | Updated: 09:02 GMT, 5 November 2012 A heart-warming collection of photographs and tweets has captured the myriad acts of kindness from the past week, as the hardships of Hurricane Sandy brought devastated communities across the tri-state area together.
From the Mayor of Newark inviting constituents into his home to charge their phones and watch DVDs to an East Village doctor offering free treatments and kids selling cookies to raise money for the relief effort, the stories encapsulate how, in their time of need, people were helping each other. Many were not prepared for the onslaught Superstorm Sandy dealt New York, New Jersey and other east coast areas on Monday night and thousands of residents had refused to leave their homes after a mandatory call to evacuate.
Scroll down for video Kindness: Kids sell goods to raise money for the Hurricane Sandy relief effort Viral: Some of the photos showing neighbourly love have gone viral online. Shocking images show desperate New Yorkers digging through dumpsters for food as downtown Manhattan embarks on fourth night without power. Families, elderly people and young residents were seen sifting through garbage outside a Key Food supermarket in the East Village yesterdayStore had discarded piles of food that had gone bad after Hurricane SandyBoth Lower East Side and East Village neighborhoods have been in dark since Monday and power isn't expected to be restored before tomorrowDeath toll passes 90 and continues to rise By Helen Pow Published: 01:40 GMT, 2 November 2012 | Updated: 12:27 GMT, 2 November 2012 New Yorkers have resorted to digging through filthy dumpsters for food ahead of their fourth night without power and, for many, without water.
Shocking images captured groups of residents sifting through garbage outside a Key Food supermarket at Avenue A and East 4th Street in the East Village yesterday. Families, elderly people and young residents were seen climbing into the dumpster hunting for whatever they could find to eat. Scroll down for video Rima Finzi-Strauss decided to take the bus to Washington, DC.
Superstorm Sandy: 40,000 New Yorkers may be forced to evacuate as temperatures plummet. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns thousands of people are in need of shelter including 20,000 in public housingSuperstorm Sandy killed at least 113 people in the US // Almost 2million still have no power as cold weather sets inHundreds of thousands of commuters today face tricky journeys into the city as public transport remains patchyConcerns rising that New York and New Jersey voters won't get to polling stations on tomorrow's Election Day By Mark Duell Published: 09:34 GMT, 5 November 2012 | Updated: 14:22 GMT, 5 November 2012 Up to 40,000 New Yorkers may need to be relocated as the city prepares for freezing temperatures and more rain and wind from a ‘nor'easter’ storm. It is expected to hit New York and New Jersey with gusts of up to 55mph by Wednesday. The strongest winds are forecast for Long Island, with 40mph more likely for New York City.
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