Hurricane Sandy leaves trail of destruction in the Bahamas
(26 Oct 2012) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of palm trees shaking under the rain and heavy rain falling at a beach front apartment complex 2. Wide of waves crashing in the beach and overflowing into beach front property 3. Mid of waves crashing into beach front property 4. Wide of waves crashing 5. Wide of palm trees shaking due to strong winds 6. Mid of knocked down trees 7. Wide of empty road and trees shaking in the background 8. Wide of huge wave crashing into beach front property 9. Ground shot of same 10. Various of beach water flowing into beach front property 11. Wide of car being driven through flooded street 12. Travelling shot of flooded street and vehicles stuck in flood waters 13. Mid of strong winds shaking trees at a tennis court 14. Wide of beach and debris left from hurricane 15. Wide of tow truck trying to remove a police vehicle stuck in the beach sand. People standing around watching. 16. Various of tow truck trying to remove police vehicle stuck in beach sand 17. Travelling shot of flooded street 18. Travelling shot showing a minivan stuck in flooded street and two people trying to move vehicle STORYLINE Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas early on Friday after leaving 29 people dead across the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm to hit the U.S. East Coast with a super-storm next week. Sandy knocked out power, flooded roads and cut off islands in the storm-hardened Bahamas as it charged through Cat Island and Eleuthera, with authorities reporting one death in the scattered archipelago. Sandy, which weakened to a category 1 hurricane on Thursday night, caused havoc in Cuba, killing 11 people in eastern Santiago and Guantanamo provinces as its howling winds and rain toppled houses and ripped off roofs. Authorities said it was Cuba's deadliest storm since July 2005, when category 5 Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people and caused $2.4 billion in damage. Sandy also killed one person while battering Jamaica on Wednesday and 16 in Haiti, where heavy rains from the storm's outer bands caused flooding in the impoverished and deforested country. Police in the Bahamas said a 66-year-old man died after falling from his roof in upscale Lyford Cay late Thursday while trying to repair a window shutter. On Friday morning, the hurricane's centre was about 25 miles (40 kilometres) north-northeast of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and 460 miles (740 kilometers) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Sandy was moving north at 6 mph (9 kph) with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph (130 kph). Government officials in the Bahamas said the storm seems to have inflicted the greatest damage on Cat Island, which took a direct hit, and Exuma, where there were reports of downed trees, power lines and damage to homes. With the storm projected to hit the Atlantic coast early on Tuesday, there was a 90 percent chance that most of the U.S. East Coast would get steady gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Wednesday. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
