Sandy Brings Hurricane-Force Gusts to U.S. East Coast

Sandy, now a powerful wintry storm, made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey, battering New York with hurricane-force wind gusts.

The system came ashore near Atlantic City, New Jersey, at 8 p.m. New York time, and by 9 p.m. the National Hurricane Center said it was receiving reports of hurricane-force wind gusts over Long Island and the New York metropolitan areas. Sandy is no longer a hurricane because it’s drawing energy from temperature differences and not the ocean, making the transition to a superstorm that may push a wall of water ashore in the Northeast and lash the East with wind, rain and snow.