Hurricane Sandy accelerated Monday afternoon and was expected to make landfall near the New Jersey-Delaware border by early evening, unleashing life-threatening storm surges along the Eastern Seaboard, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Government forecasters have warned the large, slow-moving Category 1 hurricane will deliver gale-force winds, rain, flooding and even snow across a much broader swath stretching from North Carolina to New England—including coastal storm surges of as much as 11 feet in New York harbor, according to the paper.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Sandy, as of 2 p.m., was 108 miles Southeast of Atlantic City and 175 miles South/Southeast of New York. It was moving Northwest at 28 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds at 90 miles per hour.  

Edited by: Tommy Fernandez


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