Sandy Far From Finished: Why Storm's Still Super, Headed for New Targets
Greater than the sum of its parts, the "Frankenstorm" lurches on.
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As of 11 a.m. this morning, Sandy was about 120 miles (193 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh and moving westward at about 10 miles (16 kilometers) an hour. Even so, the storm's vast reach means New York's Long Island was still seeing storm surge flooding early today.
Tim Morrin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in New York City, said Sandy's winds-though not as strong as when the storm made landfall in New Jersey last night—were still running around 40 miles (64 kilometers) an hour today. That's enough to topple trees and possibly damage or destroy some buildings, Morrin said.
Elsewhere, snow continued to fall in the mountains of Virginia,
