• On Monday night, as reports came in of Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the Jersey Shore, the one word, and the one emotion, that kept coming up was "awe. (thedailybeast.com)
  • And Google has put up an interactive map (http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy ) that tracks Hurricane Sandy's progress and offers information on storm surges, forecasts and where to find emergency shelters. (computerworld.com)
  • With tens of thousands without power, and even a few hospitals running on generators, it's unclear how long Hurricane Sandy's effects will linger. (wgbh.org)
  • Hurricane Sandy's path took it from the warm waters of the Caribbean up the Atlantic coast of the United States, where waters were exceptionally warm for this time of year. (ipsnews.net)
  • Sandy's cost is estimated between 50 and 60 billion dollars, an amount second only to Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast on Aug 29, 2005, killing 1,836 people and destroying roughly 300,000 homes. (ipsnews.net)
  • The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy's wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign. (skepticalscience.com)
  • The Lloyd Family Angel lost its head, arm, and tip of a wing to a tree branch that was snapped off by Hurricane Sandy's winds. (green-wood.com)
  • In the wake of Hurricane Sandy's devastation, another social channel has assumed its place as a mainstay. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • The eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba, though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • On October 24, Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, re-emerged a few hours later into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane. (wikipedia.org)
  • At about 1900 UTC that day, Sandy made landfall near Kingston with winds of about 85 mph (137 km/h). (wikipedia.org)
  • Just offshore Cuba, Sandy rapidly intensified to a Category 3 hurricane, with sustained winds at 115 mph (185 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 954 millibars (28.2 inHg), and at that intensity, Sandy made landfall just west of Santiago de Cuba at 0525 UTC on October 25. (wikipedia.org)
  • The current forecast track from the National Hurricane Center brings Sandy in for a landfall in central New Jersey on Tuesday, Oct. 30. (sciencedaily.com)
  • October 29, 2012 - 4:52 pm ET - Most power out now in Atlantic City is Sandy making landfall between AC and Cape May, New Jersey. (gambling911.com)
  • Even before Sandy made landfall political commentators were debating whether the storm would be better for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. (skepticalscience.com)
  • And when Sandy made landfall the night of Oct. 29, they braved rising floodwaters, high winds and driving sheets of rain to photograph the storm's impact on several communities. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status - but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • Hurricane Sandy made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone along the coast of southern New Jersey on Monday, October 29, 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Isaac made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Louisiana seven years after Hurricane Katrina. (cdc.gov)
  • tornado in 2011, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, in addition to being called upon by state and municipal governments and other animal welfare partners to lend expertise during large-scale animal rescue operations. (aspca.org)
  • USA Today even likened the potential damage Sandy could cause to that of devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, creating cause for concern in the entire tri-state area. (thetriangle.org)
  • It is true that the response of the state and federal authorities was more effective than in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when hundreds of poor people, overwhelmingly black, were left to die in New Orleans and over 100,000 forced into a semi-permanent diaspora. (socialistworld.net)
  • Measuring the Labor Market Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Migration: Evidence from Houston, Texas ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 98(2), pages 54-57, May. (repec.org)
  • The tsunami in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, and the Haiti quake all were accompanied by a surge in the use of various social media that demonstrated they were good for more than marketing campaigns and idle chat. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, there was flooding and storm damage. (alipac.us)
  • Certain widely publicized disasters, including events such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and the Boston Marathon bombing, have focused people's attention on disaster planning and preparedness. (medscape.com)
  • Debate still exists about the actual number of people who died during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. (medscape.com)
  • Are Hurricanes Blowing Climate Change Skepticism Away? (observer.com)
  • Scientists warn that climate change may be increasing the severity of hurricanes. (mongabay.com)
  • 11/05/2012) As the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy-killing over 100 people and producing upwards of $50 billion in damage along the U.S. East Coast-has reignited a long-dormant conversation on climate change in the media, it's important to note that this is not the only weird and wild weather the U.S. has seen this year. (mongabay.com)
  • 10/30/2012) On Sunday, as Hurricane Sandy roared towards the coast of the Eastern U.S., activists took to the streets in New York City to highlight the issue of climate change. (mongabay.com)
  • 10/29/2012) While scientists are still debating some fundamental questions regarding hurricanes and climate change (such as: will climate change cause more or less hurricanes? (mongabay.com)
  • Similar studies found that climate change fueled the strength of Hurricane Harvey, increased the risk of Australia's recent unprecedented fire season and contributed to a record-breaking heat wave in Europe. (npr.org)
  • They used that data to model the impacts of Hurricane Sandy in a world without climate change and found the estimated $8 billion difference. (npr.org)
  • People's lives were dramatically changed by Hurricane Sandy, and a lot of them don't realize it had to do with climate change at all. (npr.org)
  • NEW YORK, Nov 02 (IPS) - As the East Coast deals with the havoc and devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, climate scientists are seeing yet another reason to put climate change and global warming on the current political agenda. (globalissues.org)
  • The storm has reignited the hotly debated topics of climate change and global warming, which environmentalists blame for Hurricane Sandy. (globalissues.org)
  • Not everyone agrees with the claim that global warming and climate change alone have paved the way for Hurricane Sandy. (globalissues.org)
  • You can't say that Sandy occurred because of climate change, but what you can say is that that such storms are much more likely to happen with contributing factors that include things directly related to climate change," Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at Environmental Defence Fund , told IPS. (globalissues.org)
  • Could Sandy have happened without climate change? (globalissues.org)
  • Climate change is a reality," said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after Sandy swept through his state. (ipsnews.net)
  • Whether climate change caused Hurricane Sandy is the wrong question to ask, added Trenberth. (ipsnews.net)
  • He explained that climate change helped make Hurricane Sandy more destructive than it otherwise would have been. (ipsnews.net)
  • This is the second installment of a a round-up of selected news articles and blog posts about Hurricane Sandy, its impacts on the Caribbean and North America, and its relationship to climate change. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Even though freak hurricanes such as Sandy happen naturally somewhere every ten years or so, climate change is increasing the frequency of freak weather events, making them the norm rather than the exception. (foe.org)
  • In the aftermath of this devastating Hurricane, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) was asked to support land and water search and rescue operations for animals in Ocean County," said Shannon Walajtys, IFAW Manager for Disasters. (aspca.org)
  • TIME magazine recruited five professional photographers to use Instagram document Sandy and its aftermath. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • The ASPCA Field Investigations and Response team frequently responds to natural disasters, including other major events like Hurricane Irene, and the Joplin, Mo. (aspca.org)
  • Just one year ago, Hurricane Irene slammed into New York City, closing its subway system and forcing the evacuation of 370,000 people. (ipsnews.net)
  • Hurricane Irene in 2011 had been associated with a bump up in wetland accretion by several millimeters at a number of locations in the region - a bonus growth equivalent to the amount that typically accrues in an entire year. (drexel.edu)
  • Hurricane Irene from last year also ended up causing minimal damage to this very region. (thetriangle.org)
  • In this case, the lackadaisical attitude toward Sandy was due the general inactivity of Irene as well as the disregard for governmental emergency regulations. (thetriangle.org)
  • During Hurricane Irene, developers from The New York Times and Facebook collaborated to create Instacane , a gateway to storm-related Instagram photos. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • For comparison, the total number of CO exposures reported to poison centers and related to Hurricane Irene during August 28-September 2, 2011, was 49. (cdc.gov)
  • The hurricanes this year follow mass devastation wrought by an earthquake in 2010, which killed upwards of 200,000 people and over a million homeless. (mongabay.com)
  • Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) 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. (wikipedia.org)
  • The hurricane - also known as Superstorm Sandy - caused an estimated $70 billion in damages in the U.S., mostly from flooding. (npr.org)
  • More than month and a half after Superstorm Sandy, winter is setting in and many of the ten thousand residents of this Queens neighborhood still lack heat or electricity. (indypendent.org)
  • New Yorkers are being warned to prepare for the worst as deadly "superstorm" Sandy bears down on the city. (sky.com)
  • NEW YORK - As superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • It was also referred to as Superstorm Sandy. (cdc.gov)
  • It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles (1,850 km). (wikipedia.org)
  • Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. (wikipedia.org)
  • On October 27, Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sandy continued drifting inland for another few days while gradually weakening, until it was absorbed by another approaching extratropical storm on November 2. (wikipedia.org)
  • Low wind shear and warm waters allowed for strengthening, and the system was named Tropical Storm Sandy late on October 22. (wikipedia.org)
  • After Sandy exited Cuba, the structure of the storm became disorganized, and it turned to the north-northwest over the Bahamas. (wikipedia.org)
  • After briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Sandy re-intensified into a Category 1 hurricane, and on October 28, an eye began redeveloping. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfortunately, just as we have seen after every other major storm in recent years, looters are taking advantage of the chaos caused by Hurricane Sandy. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
  • But I think he-and I-got a new appreciation for radio in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, when we traveled for a family wedding to a storm-struck, electric-powerless region of New Jersey two weeks ago. (ieee.org)
  • Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 90 mph Monday afternoon, was expected to hook inland Monday, colliding with a wintry storm moving in from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic, and then cut across into Pennsylvania and travel up through New York state. (wral.com)
  • For its part, Facebook has set up a community page for Hurricane Sandy , that grabbed more than 21,000 likes and with posts of YouTube videos and images of the storm, as well as safety warnings. (computerworld.com)
  • The AIRS instrument captured an infrared image of Sandy that showed a large area of very high, cold cloud tops indicating the power within the storm. (sciencedaily.com)
  • When NASA's Terra satellite flew over Hurricane Sandy around noon local time on Oct. 25, it captured a visible image of Hurricane Sandy that showed the large extent of the storm. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The storm is a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. (sciencedaily.com)
  • EDT, tropical-storm-force winds extended up to 140 miles (220 km) from the center, making Sandy more than 280 miles in diameter. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Although Haiti avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Sandy, the tropical storm caused severe flooding across the southern part of the country decimating agricultural fields. (mongabay.com)
  • Higher water levels mean more areas are susceptible to flooding, storm surges and other problems associated with hurricanes, as well as more chronic flooding from high tides . (npr.org)
  • Quantifying exactly how much those climatic differences affected a storm like Sandy is difficult. (npr.org)
  • At 5 p.m., four hundred victims of the hurricane from many of the city's outlying, storm-ravaged areas and Occupy Sandy activists converged at Bloomberg's Upper East Side Mansion to remind the billionaire mayor of their plight and to communicate their December 31 ultimatum. (indypendent.org)
  • The hurricane and full moon are what make tides so treacherous in this storm. (wgbh.org)
  • A potentially deadly storm surge threatens to devastate NY as Hurricane Sandy strengthens and begins to flood the East Coast. (sky.com)
  • As forecasters warn New York could bear the brunt of the one-of-a-kind storm - dubbed a "Frankenstorm" - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave last-minute advice to citizens before the "massive" hurricane hits. (sky.com)
  • The massive storm, which is hundreds of miles across, is set to stay until at least mid-week, bringing hurricane winds, flooding rains and snow in the Appalachian mountains. (sky.com)
  • Hamburg agreed, noting, "we're not seeing more hurricanes…It is more the different types of storms, the intensity of the storm surge. (globalissues.org)
  • By the time Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast coast on Monday, upending lives across the Eastern half of the country, it had become a freakish hybrid of a large, late-season hurricane and a winter storm more typical of the middle latitudes. (skepticalscience.com)
  • But scientists agree on one point: Rising sea levels caused primarily by global warming could worsen the effects of storms such as Sandy, particularly when it comes to storm surge. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Hurricane Sandy was a significant storm that impacted each of us in different ways. (sunysuffolk.edu)
  • That swelling is an indication of marshes' ability to absorb some of the storm surge - which, in hard-hit urban areas, had resulted in high water marks up to seven feet during Hurricane Sandy. (drexel.edu)
  • Quirk points out that resilient, healthy wetlands near coastal areas have a key role in protecting local communities from hurricane-induced storm surges and flooding. (drexel.edu)
  • In her post-Sandy research, Quirk was interested in finding out whether the storm affected how the marshes sustain themselves. (drexel.edu)
  • Maybe the unusually high tide during Hurricane Sandy caused less suspension of sediments in the storm-surge waters. (drexel.edu)
  • Sandy exposed the woefully inadequate and antiquated state of the region's infrastructure including power distribution, public transport, the lack of effective barriers to the storm surge, etc. (socialistworld.net)
  • TNS ) - Three of the largest climate resiliency projects undertaken by the city in the wake of Hurricane Sandy are nowhere close to completion 10 years after the devastating storm - and a fourth initiative has been canceled altogether even as global warming threatens to exacerbate extreme weather events in the future. (govtech.com)
  • The National Hurricane Center on Friday predicted the storm could pass over the Cape May-Delaware area Tuesday morning. (cbsnews.com)
  • Now, ahead of any potential impact of Sandy, is the time for families to ensure they are prepared and are tuned in for the latest path of the storm for our coast. (cbsnews.com)
  • The mobile not only gave away books right after the storm, but served as a hangout and refuge for residents who had nothing after the hurricane. (kent.edu)
  • By noon on October 30, as the storm cut its deadly swath along the East Coast, more than 300,000 photos had been shared with the #sandy hashtag in addition to 144,000 with the #hurricanesandy tag and another 23,000 using the #frankenstorm tag. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • As sea levels continue to rise, the damage from storm surges like those seen in Sandy will be increasingly severe. (foe.org)
  • Although weakening as it goes, the massive storm - which caused wind warnings from Florida to Canada - will continue to bring heavy rain and local flooding, said Daniel Brown, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • Hurricane Sandy was the 18th named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. (cdc.gov)
  • Hurricane Isaac, the ninth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. (cdc.gov)
  • Tropical Storm Isaac, the ninth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, threatens the Florida and the entire Gulf coast. (cdc.gov)
  • Tropical Storm Debby, the fourth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, threatens the coast of Florida coast. (cdc.gov)
  • Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, forms off the coast of South Carolina. (cdc.gov)
  • Haiti's agricultural sector was already hard hit by Hurricane Gustav in August even before Sandy struck. (mongabay.com)
  • Tickets $20, and all proceeds will be donated to hurricane relief efforts. (nymag.com)
  • Proceeds benefit the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts of The American Red Cross, and bidding information can be found here . (nymag.com)
  • All proceeds benefit surf-based non-profit Waves for Water's Sandy relief efforts. (nymag.com)
  • Occupy Sandy sends out numerous alerts daily for volunteers or supplies through Facebook, Twitter, text-message loops and its website, but Saturday's gathering brought their coordination efforts into the streets across the city. (indypendent.org)
  • Scientists and planners have warned for more than a decade of exactly the sort of calamity that Sandy wrought. (wsws.org)
  • Because the word cause is commonly taken to mean direct cause , climate scientists, trying to be precise, have too often shied away from attributing causation of a particular hurricane, drought, or fire to global warming. (commondreams.org)
  • Scientists have long thought some of the carnage from the 2012 hurricane might be attributable to a warming climate. (npr.org)
  • Scientists have debated whether Hurricane Sandy was made more intense by a warming climate, but it's difficult to know. (npr.org)
  • UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 2 2012 (IPS) - Killing nearly 200 people in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and crippling much of New York City and surrounding areas earlier this week, Hurricane Sandy was the kind of extreme weather event scientists have long predicted will occur with global warming. (ipsnews.net)
  • Radio host and TV writer/producer Sharpling and musician-about-town Ted Leo present a night of tunes and funnies with all proceeds donated to Occupy Sandy and Staten Island's Siller Foundation Relief Fund. (nymag.com)
  • Now, supported by Occupy Sandy volunteers, residents of the Rockaways are starting to fight back. (indypendent.org)
  • Approximately 16,000 people have volunteered with Occupy Sandy, a citywide relief network established by veterans of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. (indypendent.org)
  • Many of those whose lives have been touched by Occupy Sandy have undergone a process of politicization. (indypendent.org)
  • For the second day in a row, the members of Occupy Sandy Relief have been a major contribution to our cause. (goalzero.com)
  • Generally, there's agreement in the scientific community that hotter global temperatures and warmer ocean waters will lead to more rapid intensification of hurricanes . (npr.org)
  • Reeves has studied the effect of natural disasters on voting patterns and has found that when a local official asks for federal aid after an earthquake, hurricane or tornado, that official gets a bump of a few points in the polls. (livescience.com)
  • Yes, global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy -- and the Midwest droughts and the fires in Colorado and Texas, as well as other extreme weather disasters around the world. (commondreams.org)
  • Measuring the impact of disasters using publicly available data: application to Hurricane Sandy (2012). (cdc.gov)
  • In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. (wikipedia.org)
  • When Hurricane Sandy swept up the Eastern Seaboard in 2012, it left a trail of damage from Florida to Maine. (npr.org)
  • Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard, began to hook left at midday Monday toward the New Jersey coast. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • Hurricane-force winds tore across New Jersey. (npr.org)
  • The fossil fuel industry is causing the climate crisis, leading to more extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy," McKibben said. (globalissues.org)
  • If Hurricane Sandy contributes to building such a movement-and McKibben and his fellow activists at 350.org and allied organizations are launching a national tour shortly after Election Day that aims to do just that-America might still avoid the curse of Cassandra by heeding her warnings at last. (skepticalscience.com)
  • 21, 2023 A new study has found that humpback whales will use sandy, shallow bay areas to 'roll' around in sandy substrates to remove dead skin cells on their return journeys south to cooler waters. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As she works through the data analysis this fall, Quirk said she hasn't found much sign of sediment deposits, before or after the hurricane struck. (drexel.edu)
  • We applied these strategies to Hurricane Sandy, which struck the northeastern United States in October 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Early on October 29, Sandy curved west-northwest (the "left turn" or "left hook") and then moved ashore near Brigantine, New Jersey, just to the northeast of Atlantic City, as a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds. (wikipedia.org)
  • High pressure rotating clockwise over New England may be set up to push Sandy toward the mid-Atlantic as a cold front approaches from the west. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Regardless, it appears that Sandy may be a strong wind event for the U.S. mid-Atlantic and Northeast. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As Hurricane Sandy prepares to make a direct impact on the United States second largest gambling destination, Atlantic City, Gambling911.com has your ongoing coverage of all the latest news right here. (gambling911.com)
  • As the Caribbean reaches the end of October - the second-to-last month of the Atlantic hurricane season - Sandy has caused significant material losses and claimed the lives of 44 people in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, two in the Dominican Republic, one in Jamaica and one in the Bahamas. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. (socialistworld.net)
  • 6, 2022 Extreme storms, like Sandy or Xaver, don't happen often but when they do, cities need to be prepared. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Sandy - a category one hurricane with winds of about 90mph (150kph) - is on a collision course with two other weather systems leading to fears it could develop into one of the worst storms on record in the US. (sky.com)
  • Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals' Employment and Earnings over the Long Term ," Journal of Labor Economics , University of Chicago Press, vol. 38(3), pages 653-685. (repec.org)
  • Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals' Employment and Earnings over the Long Term ," Working Papers 15-21, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. (repec.org)
  • Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals' Employment and Earnings over the Long Term ," Economic Working Papers 499, Bureau of Labor Statistics. (repec.org)
  • Hurricane Sandy caused an estimated 50 to 60 billion dollars in damage. (ipsnews.net)
  • In the wake of Sandy, state and federal public health agencies have observed an increase in the number of exposures to carbon monoxide (CO) reported to poison centers. (cdc.gov)
  • As of November 6, a total of 263 CO exposures related to Hurricane Sandy had been reported to poison centers in eight states: 80 in New York, 61 in New Jersey, 44 in Connecticut, 39 in Pennsylvania, 27 in West Virginia, eight in Virginia, three in Maryland, and one in Delaware. (cdc.gov)
  • FEMA is using Twitter and Twitpics to give people tips on preparing for Hurricane Sandy. (computerworld.com)
  • A lot of traffic on Twitter is centered around the hurricane. (computerworld.com)
  • The American Red Cross has an app called Hurricane that helps users update friends and family by simultaneously sending out messages on Facebook, Twitter, text and email. (computerworld.com)
  • New York's own Yeah Yeah Yeahs headline a hurricane relief at the intimate Williamsburg venue, with opener Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band (featuring Tunde Adebimpe of TV on The Radio). (nymag.com)
  • Rising sea levels and sinking property values: Hurricane Sandy and New York's housing market ," Journal of Urban Economics , Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 81-100. (repec.org)
  • Later that day, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded Sandy to hurricane status about 65 mi (105 km) south of Kingston, Jamaica. (wikipedia.org)
  • Operationally, Sandy was assessed to have peaked as a high-end Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (180 km/h). (wikipedia.org)
  • In North Carolina, Sandy brought light rain and diminishing winds to the coast, but more flooding on low-lying Hatteras and Ocracoke islands was expected with high tide. (wral.com)
  • Good luck-if it is slow might have heavy winds for 2 days-instead of the 12-20 hrs of a usual hurricane. (cleanmpg.com)
  • Forecasters were predicting Sandy would hook up with two other weather systems, bringing heavy rain, high winds and flooding to the East Coast. (cbsnews.com)
  • It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • A month has passed since Hurricane Sandy devastated coastal and low-lying sections of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, taking the lives of more than 100 people and destroying the homes and livelihoods of tens of thousands more. (wsws.org)
  • The project was supposed to erect coastal flood protection barriers along the shoreline of Breezy Point, the residential neighborhood on the western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula that got crushed by Sandy, with flooding and fires leveling some 350 homes and damaging hundreds more. (govtech.com)
  • Did Haiti's deforestation, hurricane trigger deadly earthquake? (mongabay.com)
  • 01/04/2011) Erosion caused by hurricanes and large-scale deforestation may have contributed to last year's devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti, according to a geologist at the University of Miami. (mongabay.com)
  • MORRISVILLE, N.C. - Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on travel Monday as it moved northward along the eastern U.S. seaboard, prompting the cancellation of an estimated 7,500 flights and shutting down airports, train service, subways and buses throughout the Northeast. (wral.com)
  • the same that turned the hurricane to the northeast. (wikipedia.org)
  • As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind - and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • As Hurricane Sandy roars up the East Coast, residents, news organizations and government agencies are taking to social networks to get their messages out. (computerworld.com)
  • there's no debating that a monster hurricane is now imperiling the U.S. East Coast. (mongabay.com)
  • Oh the East Coast and NE folks-even New England-they are familiar with Hurricanes. (cleanmpg.com)
  • When Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast on Oct. 29, 2012, it damaged the Peninsula Library beyond repair. (kent.edu)
  • On October 25, Sandy hit Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, then weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. (wikipedia.org)
  • 96 mph would make Sandy a Category 2. (gambling911.com)
  • The hurricane turned out to be a Category 1 disaster, a rating at which many southern folks might have guffawed. (thetriangle.org)
  • Remnants of the former Category 1 hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • One of the three ongoing post-Sandy projects is "Raised Shorelines," which was rolled out by ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2016 with an aim to elevate roadways and other infrastructure in low-lying neighborhoods. (govtech.com)
  • Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified. (wikipedia.org)
  • But as New Yorkers mark the 10th anniversary of Sandy this weekend, the city has only spent 0.3% of the Raised Shorelines program's $103 million budget, according to an audit released this month by Comptroller Brad Lander's office. (govtech.com)
  • Hurricane Sandy on October 25th in the Caribbean. (mongabay.com)
  • Sandy is now headed toward the Bahamas and warnings and watches have already been posted for the mainland US. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In anticipation of the hurricane, media outlets sent out many warnings, including The New York Times' statement predicting "'life-threatening' flooding … nation's most densely populated areas. (thetriangle.org)
  • So when any given hurricane comes along, on average there's warmer water than there would have been otherwise …which gives it more energy and gives it more strength," Hayhoe recently stated . (foe.org)
  • This year Klum was forced to postpone her now-legendary Halloween bash due to the hurricane. (nymag.com)
  • In February she began working on an intensive year-long project, funded by the National Science Foundation , to evaluate ecosystem processes in New Jersey's salt marshes before, during, and for a year following Hurricane Sandy. (drexel.edu)
  • We show the gradual emergence of a price penalty among flood zone properties that were not damaged by Sandy, reaching 8% in year 2017 and showing no signs of recovery. (repec.org)
  • The Hurricane Sandy devastation in New York City is so severe that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was forced to reverse his decision to hold the marathon this weekend. (radaronline.com)
  • Current estimates of the total cost of Sandy-related damage are at least $50 billion for New York City alone. (socialistworld.net)
  • Nearly a month after Sandy hit the critical PATH train system which brings hundreds of thousands from New Jersey to New York City is still not fully functioning. (socialistworld.net)
  • A flooded parking lot in Queens, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. (govtech.com)
  • This paper analyzes the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market using a large parcel-level dataset that contains all housing sales for 2003-2017. (repec.org)
  • Global warming didn't spawn Sandy but it certainly contributed to the impact, with a couple of features definitely worsening it," he told IPS. (globalissues.org)
  • Arriving atop fantastically warm water and aided by a full foot of sea-level rise during the last century, Hurricane Sandy is just the latest example of climate change's impact on human society. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Although much of the damage inflicted by Sandy was inevitable, better preparation could have prevented some of the more ruinous impact caused by the hurricane. (thetriangle.org)
  • The Impact of Hurricane Sandy on HIV Testing Rates: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • Hurricane Sandy alone is slated to cost over $60 billion in damages and lost business . (foe.org)
  • However, the difference between southern hurricanes and Sandy was that the possible effects on industry, infrastructure, and lives were more severe due to the concentrated population in the region. (thetriangle.org)
  • NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Hurricane Sandy as it was moving over eastern Cuba early on Oct. 25. (sciencedaily.com)
  • School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) alumnus Matt Allison , M.L.I.S. '04 , always knew he loved the field of library and information science, but he never imagined his passion would lead him to restore a hurricane-damaged library in Queens, N.Y. (kent.edu)
  • Sandy was twice the size of an average hurricane, and it hit the eastern coast of the United States, where sea levels have been rising the fastest, said Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. (ipsnews.net)
  • Hurricanes are largely fuelled by warm water and moist air. (ipsnews.net)
  • As Sandy hit and water levels rose, those measurements continued. (drexel.edu)
  • In turn, this warming has been definitively linked to three events (of many, many more) that exacerbate freak weather like Hurricane Sandy, including sea level rise , higher sea water temperature , and melting arctic ice . (foe.org)
  • Incidence data from July to December 2017 are excluded to account for the population shift that occurred due to Hurricane Maria. (cdc.gov)
  • Sandy caused two deaths and an estimated $700 million (2012 USD) in damage in The Bahamas. (wikipedia.org)
  • But because Hurricane Sandy caused so much damage and was so heavily covered in the national news, voters' impressions of Obama could be affected. (livescience.com)
  • And consequently, it systemically caused all the loss of life, material damage, and economic loss of Hurricane Sandy. (commondreams.org)
  • 11/02/2012) The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today released pictures showing damage caused earlier this week at the New York Aquarium by Hurricane Sandy. (mongabay.com)
  • Even with all the necessary information provided prior to the hurricane, more damage was done due to the carelessness of residents who failed to acknowledge the true threat that Sandy presented. (thetriangle.org)
  • POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Jersey Shore residents are getting ready for Hurricane Sandy and the possibility that she will make a direct hit on The Garden State next week. (cbsnews.com)
  • The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said it strengthened as it turned toward the coast on a predicted path toward New York, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, moving at around 28 mph (44kph). (sky.com)
  • With Sandy just a few hours away from hitting the locked-down city, he urged people to stay indoors and warned: "The time for relocation is over. (sky.com)
  • I have a conspiracy theory that Hurricane Sandy was manufactured and I would like to share my theory and invite people to read the article provided that explains my theory. (sciforums.com)
  • For the first month after the hurricane, people powered their phones, laptops and other electronics on the bus. (kent.edu)
  • Haiti declared a state of emergency on October 30th following Hurricane Sandy. (mongabay.com)
  • One conclusion on which experts do agree is that the frequency and intensity of hurricanes like Sandy will increase over time. (globalissues.org)
  • A new appreciation of solar after Hurricane Sandy exposes a weak power grid. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Radio towers are designed to be hurricane-proof , with backup power for eight to 10 days. (ieee.org)
  • The Big Apple, being a major population center, is dependent on the electrical power that runs through the city, and with such tightly packed buildings and streets, New York was irrefutably the region in the most danger as the hurricane rolled into the shore. (thetriangle.org)
  • When the power went out on the day Sandy hit and damaged the structure of the building, patients were forced to evacuate without identification or medicine sheets into the dire conditions outside, later to be ushered into a shelter. (thetriangle.org)
  • But despite all the rhetoric about 'standing together' it was blatantly obvious that the first priority of the ruling class after Sandy hit was restoring power to Wall Street. (socialistworld.net)
  • Hurricane Sandy has broken the so-called "climate silence" of this year's elections. (globalissues.org)