Environment
Hurricane Sandy's Track: 10 Million People Could Lose Power
And that's the "conservative estimate," according to a Johns Hopkins engineer.
Beside leaving supermarkets absolutely barren of staples – not to mention life's greatest necessity, alcohol (I myself saw a woman frantically trying to load her cart with Trader Joe's entire wine shelf here in D.C.) – people up and down the East Coast spent Sunday sucking gas stations dry. And folks are right to be preparing for the worst, with the prognosis for Hurricane Sandy's path herding it straight into the most densely populated parts of the U.S. Northeast:
(Forecast track generated late Sunday night by the National Hurricane Center.)