Hurricane Sandy started to take shape as a tropical storm off the coast of Nicaragua early this week and tonight, she is a powerful Category 2 storm doing damage in the Bahamas.
The storm has claimed at least two lives in the Caribbean as she grazed past Haiti, and ploughed through Jamaica, Cuba and now the Bahamas.
In Jamaica, Sandy dumped heavy rains, downed power lines, and forced hundreds to seek emergency shelter.
Jamaica's power company reports that 70 per cent of its customers were without power. Police ordered a 48-hour curfew to deter looters.
A 74-year-old person was reportedly killed when a boulder rolled onto his house.
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