Hurricane Sandy paralyzes life in the east coast of the U.S.

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hurricane strength Sandy approached from the east coast of the United States, where the authorities announced in the States bordering the Atlantic Ocean state of emergency.
The authorities ordered the New York State evacuated 370 thousand people, particularly in coastal towns and low-lying areas, cities have been evacuated to other residents and aviation authorities canceled more than 7,400 flights for fear of the hurricane that is expected to be the worst storm in the region.Residents lined Washington and New York and Boston in long queues in front of the doors of the shops to get emergency supplies such as bottled water, canned food and batteries.Classes were canceled in most of the states east coast, and suspended all bus and train services in New York, Philadelphia and Washington.And announced the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq and securities markets in Chicago that it would close on Monday and maybe even Tuesday.Also closed the headquarters of the United Nations and Broadway theaters in New Yoعk and New Jersey amusement.The National Hurricane Center has declared that the wind speed reached 140 km per hour, compared with 120 km per hour on Sunday evening, and the cyclone became a distance of about 615 miles south of New York on Monday morning.And extends the hurricane Sandy at a distance range of up to 780 kilometers, lead when other climatic factors and terrain to strong winds in the area and flooding in another area, could see the high snow areas at an unprecedented rate.Sandy and campaignsAnd forced typhoon President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney to cancel tours electoral several planned within the campaign and raised fears of disabled early voting allowed by some states, and that eight days before the elections scheduled on the sixth of November next.Romney went to Ohio after the cancellation of three rallies planned in Virginia.Also canceled President Obama Monday a campaign swing in Florida, Ohio and decided to return to the White House "to oversee the preparations" for the arrival of hurricane can wreak significant damage beyond damage Hurricane Irene in 2011, which killed 47 people and material losses worth 15 billion dollars.The campaigns also canceled rallies in New Hampshire, which could face strong winds and heavy rains.Officials working in areas in the path of the hurricane to ensure that causes power outages for long periods of time to spoil the early voting processes that seem vital to both candidates this year.The officials acknowledged in the campaigns that after years of intensive planning and spend about two billion dollars on election campaigns, the hurricane caused the introduction of an element of chaos at the last minute.But Obama played down the impact of the hurricane on the vote, while Bob McDonnell announced the Republican governor of Virginia that his plans to extend early voting hours and quickly restoring electricity to the polling stations in case of interruption.Obama signed emergency announcements to grant federal funds to disaster for all of the states of New York and Massachusetts, Konetekit, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island and the city of Washington.Former president George W. Bush faced heavy criticism because of his reaction, which was considered slow after Hurricane Katrina, which resulted in 2005 killed more than 1800 people, did not want President Barack Obama risk, as is the emergency services in the country to prepare and asked people to take hurricane seriously.