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New York was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy on October 29–30, 2012, particularly New York City, its suburbs, and Long Island.Sandy's impacts included the flooding of the New York City Subway system, of many suburban communities, and of all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel.
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) [1] [2] was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds ...
August 1, 1830: A hurricane passes to the east of New York and produces gale-force winds to New York City and Long Island. [9] October 4, 1841: Gale–force winds affect New York City as a hurricane tracks north along the East Coast of the United States. Damage is estimated at $2 million (1841 USD, $41 million 2007 USD). [10]
Snow spread across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and up the coast of New England from Nov. 7 through Nov. 9, a little over one week after Sandy made landfall.
The storm surge produced by Hurricane Sandy, which occurred at high tide, pushed water to 13.88 ft (4.23 m) at Battery Park, New York, beating the previous record of 10.02 ft (3.05 m) set by Hurricane Donna in 1960 at the same location.
October 29, 2015 marks three years since Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the northeastern United States. The hurricane tore through hundreds of homes in New York and New Jersey, killing over 100 ...
AP, Mark LennihanA worker walks the roof line of a house under construction in the Breezy Point community of New York's Queens borough on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. It is the first house to be ...
A total of approximately $71.4 billion in property damage was left in Sandy's wake after it made landfall and its center went over Pennsylvania and New York. Sandy killed 5 people in New England (4 in Connecticut and 1 in New Hampshire). To the west, Sandy dumped 2–4 feet (61–122 cm) of snow in the Appalachian Mountain region and flatlands.