CEJ #4

Hazel

February 12, 2013

Hurricane Sandy's details and damages

Moore, Kirk

Asbury Park Press

2-12-13

U.S

http://www.app.com

Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest Mid- Atlantic hurricane ever since hurricane Agnes swept up Chesapeake bay in 1972. According to a report newly issued by the National Hurricane Center.The report talks about what all hurricane experts always warn: The deadliest part of a storm is it's surge which is when the sudden rush of water comes out of the sea. During Hurricane Sandy the floods took 41 out of the 72 total lives lost directly from the storm., most from around New York Harbor where the surge was about 9 feet deep in some neighborhoods the report said. The Raritan Bay shore, Monmouth, and Ocean counties took most of the storm, with 22,000 uninhabitable in the days after the storm of the 650,000 homes affected by hurricane Sandy. The report predicts that Hurricane Sandy will prove to be the second costliest tropical storm in modern times. Standing behind Hurricane Katrina's impact on the gulf states and New Orleans. 

To me it is really surprising that there was a total of 650,000 homes that were affected by hurricane sandy and that 22,000 homes were made uninhabitable, I want to know what the people who lost their lives were doing in New York Harbor even though there were hurricane warnings, I do think it is really sad that they died from it though and I want to know where you would go, I guess you could just go somewhere that the hurricane would not affect and stay at a motel or something but if I lived there, for me it would be really scary not knowing what was going on if I left my home.