Weather forecasters warned yesterday that the approaching megastorm which could wreak life-threatening havoc to tens of millions of people’s lives across 800 miles of the East Coast has the potential to be the largest storm ever to hit the United States.

And with several state of emergencies already in existence across the country, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that the city’s subway and bus operations closed down yesterday and would ‘most definitely’ remain shut all of Monday with services projected to re-start probably on Tuesday afternoon.