Leaving Destructive Path
Storm Barrels Through Region, Leaving Destructive Path
Hurricane Sandy battered the mid-Atlantic region on Monday, its powerful gusts and storm surges causing once-in-a-generation flooding in coastal communities, knocking down trees and power lines and leaving more than five million people — including a large swath of Manhattan — in the rain-soaked dark. At least seven deaths in the New York region were tied to the storm.
The mammoth and merciless storm made landfall near Atlantic City around 8 p.m., with maximum sustained winds of about 80 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. That was shortly after the center had reclassified the storm as a post-tropical cyclone, a scientific renaming that had no bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm surge expected to accompany its push onto land.
なんでもないような見出しですが、leaving以下、とくにpathが効いています。などとのんきなことを言ってはいけないのでしょうが...。ともあれNJに住む友人とメールをして無事であることは確認しました。（UG）
