Megastorm Sandy could wreak havoc across eastern U.S.

Sunday, October 28, 2012 | 12:54 p.m. CDT; updated 1:07 p.m. CDT, Monday, October 29, 2012

SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. — Shelters opened and tens of thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the Northeast buttoned up against the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation.

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