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Sandy Makes Landfall Hurricane Sandy lived up to expectations in October 2012, delivering a powerful punch with heavy rains, strong winds, and significant storm surges. After taking 69 lives in the Caribbean, Sandy hit the eastern United States, where it claimed 72 more lives.[1]
FEMA’s emergency response and grant system are in serious need of reform.
The devastating flooding from the 20 plus inches of rain, may be up to 30 inches as it comes a lunch for >> shannon: jay, having written about this and having an historical context for these kinds of storms, a north carolinian yourself, what message do you have for the people of the carolinas as they try to survive this and start over? >> you are hearing it consistently from the reports tonight, just because the storm has dropped in intensity on the simpson scale, we can't ignore the fact that this was a monster dressed a couple of days ago. it still is in scale, and those reading impacts are ...
After witnessing the destruction in texas. janice dean you told us about this a week and a half ago. and it's happening. janice: well, let's see, five days in forecast time is a long way to go. but if you live across the east coast, if you live across florida, the keys or even the gulf coast you need to pay really close attention to the path of hurricane irma. new advisory comes out at 8:00 a.m. will this be a category 5? the potential is there. we is a lot of warm water ahead of it. if it has less interaction with land then we are dealing with the potential for a strengthening storm system. t...