Hurricane Sandy hits New Jersey, USA coast

Hurricane Sandy, the Atlantic's Ocean's biggest-ever tropical storm, barreled toward southern New Jersey after bringing a region with 60 million residents to virtual standstill. The storm, 900 miles wide, prompted warnings of life- threatening surges from Virginia to Massachusetts, emptied the streets of the nation's largest cities, paralyzed mass-transit systems and lashed the area with gales, rain and even snow. It shut government offices and prevented U.S. stock markets from opening for two days. At least 316,500 customers were without power, with New York and New Jersey reporting the most outages, the federal Energy Department said.

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Keywords: HURRICANE SANDY, USA

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