Hazardous weather conditions in Michigan from the remnants of Superstorm Sandy, including high wind speeds, freezing rain and some flooding along Michigan’s western coast were at their worst Tuesday, and will continue to taper off in the following days.
Meteorologist Ernie Ostuno of the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids said the system is weakening now and that its effects seem to be moving away from Michigan.
“We’re pretty much done with the heavy stuff,” Ostuno said.
Ostuno said the National Weather Service canceled its wind advisory for the Lansing area at about 4 p.m. There was some damage along the west coast of Michigan, where there were power outages and some tree limbs down.
Superstorm Sandy also is dying down in eastern states, although there still are some wind gusts and flooding.
MSU alumna Megan Durisin, a former State News employee who currently is studying at New York University, said her apartment in Manhattan had no power or water Tuesday.
Durisin said the worst of the storm seemed to be on Monday night around 9 p.m., when her windows were shaking from heavy winds.
“There were still some people on the streets, and when cops were going by, you could hear them tell the people (that) they need to get indoors right away.”
When she went to bed Monday night, the city was dark as far as she could see south; it was odd, she said, because the streets never are deserted.
She said it rained most of the day on Tuesday.
She and her roommate took refuge at a nearby hotel to eat breakfast and charge their phones before heading to a friend’s apartment to wait out the rest of the storm.
Durisin said in her neighborhood, the main feeling everyone seemed to have was “Where can we go?”
“I don’t know of too many people who left the city,” Durisin said. “Today, people were walking around because people were looking to find power, and lots of people (were) walking with overnight bags.”
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