the portland area, and you should never drive through the standing water, and trees are downed sometimes under the water, and power lines down and thousands of people without power. the weather, as we move from the summer into the fall, still a big story across the country. yeah, it s that time of year, guys, when you are making that transition from the summer into the fall, the weather pattern goes quickly for some folks and around portions of the northwest certainly going to be the case, just the menacing storm system, and the first band of wet weather came through in the first 24 hours and second band comes in today, and we are talking about hurricane gusts-wind gust, and this storm is not just like any other storm. it packs moisture associated with a typhoon that was over japan five days ago, and pushing in. that s why so much rain is
towns. that is ocean city, maryland. we know areas like wildwood and avalon have also been very hard hit in this storm. we ve seen boardwalks and beaches that have been destroyed, plunging millions of people up and down the coast into the dark today. steve harrigan is live in ocean city, maryland. is not far from where sandy hit. how bad is it where you are, steve? good morning to you. reporter: good morning, martha. it is worse here on the bay side of ocean city, maryland, than where we saw the storm coming in. it really peaked with high winds at 5:00 p.m. certainly hurricane gusts. this area of downtown ocean city was largely closed off. there was a mandatory evacuation. it looks like a ghost town. this st. louis avenue is pretty much turned into a river. it is a pretty strong current coming in. you can see the car half underwater behind me. most of the people are gone. there will be significant flooding. it looks like it will take a
brought the right supplies for it at all. but as far as the conditions go, it certainly feels like a category 1 hurricane gusts of wind. when you see small objects fly around and when you see a stop sign snap in half, that s a prettyood indicator, even without holding an mom ter in the air that you are in a hurricane. shepard: explaining to new yorkers what s about to happen. let s go over to nic gregory if we could. even though the center has come on shore the flood. the fox 5 guardian close in view is showing light showers. the wind is pounding the coast at gusts of over 60, 70 miles per hour in a lot of places. now, notice again a little wind shift out of the southeast. everybody east to northeast. 35 to 40 miles per hour. those are the sustained winds. here to are the latest gusts. gusting 2 at kennedy. 72 at farming dale.
surge and the worst of the rain and the worst of the wind. on tuesday, still, heavy rain and tropical storm force gusts and maybe hurricane gusts. then the snowy part of storm in feet across the appalachian mountains. that is for the record books already. neil: amazing. now, down to outside the new york stock exchange the sand bags are literally outside the big board headquarters and they have shut trading down today. they will shut trading down tomorrow, as william. but, today, by the way, if you keep track these side notes is the anniversary of the great 1929 stock market crash and this anniversary itself could renew market lo now, what can we expect now from what are they doing in. we do know that the new york
reynolds? reporter: well, don, the latest we ve got is basically more of the same. gusts coming in that have been very strong. i ve got to tell you when it comes to the storm, although it is a category 1, israel it s going to be in a dying state over the next 12 to 24 hours, the biggest danger for this region has not been just that the strength of the winds but rather the direction of the storm, how long it s been coming, how long is the island been subjected to hurricane gusts and tropical storm force winds. and the problem is it s not going to just fade as the storm passes north, but rather it s going to continue. some of the tropical force some winds, we could see further power outages as we make our way into monday, perhaps even into tuesday, and i ll tell you. last time when this when an event like this occurred back in 2003, with that hurricane i ve got to tell you with fabian, it took some parts of the islands three weeks before power was fully restored. going to take a long