Sandy ultimately was blamed for nearly 150 deaths, mostly related to water. While many focus on the wind and the rain in a ...

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With an estimated $70.2 billion in damage, Sandy is the third costliest natural disaster in US history (it was second until being overtaken by Hurricane Harvey in August). The storm was ...

By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast ... By the end of the century a hundred-year storm surge like Sandy’s might occur every decade or less. Using a conservative prediction ...

On Monday, with Hurricane Sandy fast approaching, Wards Auto published a report speculating on how the storm might effect the auto industry. In a general sense, it was predicted that plants in or ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported flooding from Tallahassee, Florida to Mobile Bay in Alabama. It also warned of a "life-threatening" storm surge and river flooding inland as far as ...

A storm surge is water that is pushed onto shore by a hurricane. It is rarely a "wall of water" as often claimed, but rather a rise of water that can be as rapid as several feet in just a few minutes.

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