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SANDY FROM AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM TO A HISTORIC “SUPER STORM” IN EIGHT DAYS Part 2

SANDY FROM AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM TO A HISTORIC “SUPER STORM” IN EIGHT DAYS Part 2. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA.

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SANDY FROM AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM TO A HISTORIC “SUPER STORM” IN EIGHT DAYS Part 2

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  1. SANDYFROM AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM TO A HISTORIC “SUPER STORM” IN EIGHT DAYSPart 2 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

  2. AT 8:00 PM ON OCTOBER 29, SANDYBECAME THE MOST DEVASTATING CAT 1 HURRICANE TO HIT THE EASTERN USA IN RECORDED HISTORY(PRESSURE– 940 Mb)October 29– November ?, 2012

  3. CAT 1 HURRICANE SANDY MADE LANDFALL AT 8:00 PM ON MONDAY NIGHT, OCT. 29TH Sandy made landfall south of Atlantic City, New Jersey, merging with a winter storm system to become a unique, once-in-a-century, “Super Storm” caused by nature’s natural cycles, NOT global warming

  4. FORTY DEATHS ALONG EASTERN SEABOARD (as of Oct. 30) Preliminary Loss Estimate: $50 Billion

  5. SANDY CAUSES 2012 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN TO BE PLACED ON HOLD Election to take place on November 6th

  6. FROM AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM TO A SUPER STORM

  7. AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM ON OCTOBER 22

  8. SANDY MADE LANDFALL IN NEW JERSEY: 8:00 PM, OCT. 29

  9. SUPER STORM SANDY: OCT. 29-30, 2012

  10. OCT. 29 HIGHLIGHTS: NEW YORK THE SUDDENNESS AND THE RECORD HEIGHT OF THE STORM SURGE CAUSED HAVOC

  11. STORM SURGE SET NEW RECORD WITHOUT BENEFIT OF FULL-MOON HIGH TIDE 13 ft (4 1/3 m); a new record Sustained winds of 133 kph (80 mph).

  12. ATLANTIC CITY AND NEW YORK ON NORTH SIDE OF EYE AT LANDFALL • Exacerbated flooding in Atlantic City, NJ destroys Boardwalk • Hundreds of thousands in NJ without power

  13. LANDFALL (Continued) • Con. Edison shut off power for 250,000 in lower Manhattan. • Record flooding quickly inundated tip of Manhattan. • All of New York City flooded. • Brooklyn Battery tunnel flooded.

  14. FLOODING IN BROOKLYN

  15. NY HOSPITALS IMPACTED FLOODING, POWER OUTAGES, AND AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION LIMIT SERVICES

  16. NEW YORK CITY ON LOCK DOWN ROADS CLOSED TUNNELS CLOSED SUBWAY, TRAINS, AND AIRPORTS CLOSED WIDE-SPREAD POWER OUTAGES HIGH VOLUME OF 911 CALLS THAT CAN’T BE ANSWERED EFFICIENTLY STOCK EXCHANGES CLOSED SCHOOLS CLOSED

  17. WATER AND FIRE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN QUEENS, NY Fire fighters unable to cope with flooding and fire as 80 houses burn to ground

  18. OCT. 29: FLOODED STREETS IN QUEENS

  19. OCT. 29: FIRE IN QUEENS

  20. OCT. 29 HIGHLIGHTS: NEW JERSEY NO PART OF NEW JERSEY WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE TH EXCEPTIONAL AND UNTHINKABLE FLOODING FROM SANDY’S STORM SURGE

  21. NEW JERSEY: ATLANTIC CITY UNDER WATER

  22. NEW JERSEY: OCEAN FRONT FLOODING

  23. NEW JERSEY: STREET FLOODING

  24. OCT. 29 HIGHLIGHTS: MASSACHUSSETS

  25. HUGE WAVES HIT SEA WALL: SCIUATE, MASS

  26. OCT. 29 HIGHLIGHTS: DELAWARE

  27. REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE: OCT. 29

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