Utilities Ready for Power Outages as Hurricane Sandy Barrels Ashore

Residents and utilities along the East Coast are bracing for the worst of Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to bring winds up to 90 mph along with heavy rains when it makes landfall Monday.

Billed as “Frankenstorm” because of the tropical hurricane’s collision with a cold front from the west, a full moon, and the week of Halloween to boot, Hurricane Sandy has killed at least 65 people in the Caribbean and prompted a wave of public transit shutdowns and supermarket sprees for provisions as it approached the U.S. East Coast. Residents from North Carolina up to New York prepared to cope without electricity for at least a couple of days, if not a week or more, as

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