Here's a snapshot of what was happening Monday or expected in some states from what was Hurricane Sandy:
Carolinas: The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 14 members of a crew forced to abandon a tall ship off the North Carolina coast, but two other crew members went missing; one was found and listed in critical conditional Monday night. The HMS Bounty was originally built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando, and has been featured in other films, including one of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.Delaware: Dover Air Force Base has relocated some aircraft in anticipation of the storm, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested that the base be used as a staging area for support and supplies. Some residents of low-lying areas of the base have been ordered to evacuate. Power outages: 32,000.Maryland: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake banned vehicular travel on city roads beginning at 6 p.m. Monday. Gov. Martin O'Malley earlier Monday closed the Bay Bridge.New Jersey: All roads into and out of Ocean City are closed due to flooding that has cut off the popular Jersey shore resort community. Sandy already had flooded most of Atlantic City, sweeping away part of the boardwalk. Power outages: 664,000.New York: A construction crane atop a luxury high-rise collapsed in high winds Monday and dangled precariously above midtown Manhattan. Power outages topped the 1 million mark early in the evening.Virginia: A curfew is in place on Virginia's swamped Chincoteague Island. Officials say the entire 37-square-mile island is underwater, and the causeway is closed.
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Carolinas: The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 14 members of a crew forced to abandon a tall ship off the North Carolina coast, but two other crew members went missing; one was found and listed in critical conditional Monday night. The HMS Bounty was originally built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando, and has been featured in other films, including one of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.Delaware: Dover Air Force Base has relocated some aircraft in anticipation of the storm, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested that the base be used as a staging area for support and supplies. Some residents of low-lying areas of the base have been ordered to evacuate. Power outages: 32,000.Maryland: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake banned vehicular travel on city roads beginning at 6 p.m. Monday. Gov. Martin O'Malley earlier Monday closed the Bay Bridge.New Jersey: All roads into and out of Ocean City are closed due to flooding that has cut off the popular Jersey shore resort community. Sandy already had flooded most of Atlantic City, sweeping away part of the boardwalk. Power outages: 664,000.New York: A construction crane atop a luxury high-rise collapsed in high winds Monday and dangled precariously above midtown Manhattan. Power outages topped the 1 million mark early in the evening.Virginia: A curfew is in place on Virginia's swamped Chincoteague Island. Officials say the entire 37-square-mile island is underwater, and the causeway is closed.
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