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People are evacuated from a neighborhood in Little Ferry, New Jersey, one day after Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast on Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy took the lives of 71 people, directly, and 87 ...
Hurricane Sandy was the costliest natural disaster in the history of New Jersey, with economic losses to businesses of up to $30 billion. The most intense storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy formed in the Caribbean Sea on October 22. For days ahead of its eventual landfall, the hurricane was expected to turn toward New Jersey, as ...
When Sandy landed in Atlantic City on October 29, 2012, the streets were flooded, power lines were knocked down, and the city's boardwalk was destroyed. 27 photos that show the destruction of ...
September 10, 1954 – Hurricane Edna skirted the coastline, producing tropical storm force winds of up to 65 mph and dropping 4 inches of rain in Long Branch. October 15, 1954 – Hurricane Hazel passed well to the west of New Jersey, producing very high winds but only sporadic rainfall.
The worst may be over, but Hurricane Sandy continues to ravage the East Coast, with the effects of the storm going to be felt throughout the region for days. Hurricane Sandy has left a swath of ...
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) [ 1][ 2] was an extremely large and destructive Category 3 Atlantic hurricane which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force ...
More about Hurricane Sandy: Storm of Protest Over Rising Flood Insurance Rates A Year After Sandy, Jersey Shore Horror Stories Continue. More Coverage of Sandy - One Year Later. More on AOL Real ...
Hurricane Sandy drifted up along the Gulf Stream from the Caribbean to the mid-Atlantic to become wedged between a stationary cold front over the Appalachians and a static high pressure air mass over maritime Canada. The Canadian air mass blocked the storm from moving farther northeast. Instead, the easterly winds circulating around the south ...