Frankenstorm!

A monster of a storm is headed for the east coast just in time for Halloween. Hurricane Sandy swept through the Caribbean and if now headed up the east coast. At the same time a nor'easter is headed across the country towards the same area. This article from CBS says that the two storms could meet on tuesday over New York or New Jersey and form a "Frankenstorm" that could inundate most of the east coast with rain.

This image from CBS shows the expected path and arrival time of Sandy.

News coverage of Sandy has been focused on its arrival in New York and New Jersey around Halloween and news sources have had a field day with halloween puns like this one from CBS "Meteorologists expect a natural horror show of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow to the west beginning early Sunday, peaking with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday and lingering past Halloween on Wednesday." The media has not focused on the at least 40 deaths in Haiti and Cuba which is more horrific or gruesome but much less appropriate for the media to make puns about so these stories have been relegated to the back burner of the media's consciousness.