Source Newsroom: Johns Hopkins MEDIA ADVISORY: Hurricane Sandy –
8 to 10 million cumulative power outages predicted An engineer
at The Johns Hopkins University is predicting power outages for
8 to 10 million people in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Please note: A multicolored map of power outage predictions is
available. Email firstname.lastname@example.org. Newswise —
Hurricane Sandy is weakening and moving faster than anticipated.
Therefore a computer model developed by an engineer at The Johns
Hopkins University is now predicting fewer power outages than
initially expected. Seth Guikema is predicting that an overall
cumulative total of 8 to 10 million people will lose power in
the wake of the hurricane, based on the last storm track and
intensity forecast at 2 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 30. It is
important to note that the computer model predicts cumulative
outages, not peak outages. Cumulative means the total count of
anyone who has lost power, versus peak, which is the number of
people without power at