All Blog Posts Tagged 'hurricane' (4)

As many of you already know, New Jersey got the brunt of Hurricane Sandy. Haunting images have emerged that show the incredible devastation it caused particularly along its coast. Waves washing over a roller coaster, a house partially standing and cars buried in sand are just some of the scenes that seem almost too surreal to be real.

When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie got his first good look Tuesday of the destruction in his state, he labeled it "unthinkable." On Wednesday,…

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To assess the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy, NOAA's NOS (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service) has just released satellite images collected yesterday, on October 31, along the New Jersey coast that are overlaid on top of Google Satellite maps. WeatherMatrix has put them next to "before images" that show the devastation…

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Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a report that more than 8.2 million homes and businesses lost power in the United States because of Hurricane Sandy. New York was among the hardest hit with 2 million affected and hundreds of thousands of people still without power. As the New York Times reports, last night, a…

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Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Northeast last night leaving a trail of destruction including floods, fires, fallen trees and millions without power. John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, said, "This will be one for the record books. This will be the largest storm-related outage in our history."

Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg said, “Make no mistake about it, this was a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever…

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