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The effects of Hurricane Sandy in Maryland and Washington, D.C., included tropical storm force sustained winds with isolated gusts to hurricane force, plus significant mountain snow and coastal flooding.
October 29, 2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall north of the state. However, due to the tremendous size of the storm, its effects were felt all over Maryland. During the peak of the storm, 60 mph sustained winds were felt from Frederick, Maryland eastward.
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 ...
People are evacuated from a neighborhood in Little Ferry, New Jersey, one day after Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast on Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy took the lives of 71 people, directly, and 87 ...
The worst may be over, but Hurricane Sandy continues to ravage the East Coast, with the effects of the storm going to be felt throughout the region for days. Hurricane Sandy has left a swath of ...
When Sandy landed in Atlantic City on October 29, 2012, the streets were flooded, power lines were knocked down, and the city's boardwalk was destroyed. 27 photos that show the destruction of ...
After spending a short duration over the island, Sandy moved just offshore Cuba and began a period of rapid intensification, in which the cyclone strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, with 1-minute sustained winds at 115 mph (185 km/h) winds and a central pressure at 954 millibars (28.2 inHg); [1 ...
The storm hit the United States one week before the 2012 United States General Election and affected the various campaigns. As reported by the Christian Science Monitor, "The day after hurricane Sandy hit the eastern United States, to devastating effect, a political debate is raging over whether Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney suggested last year the elimination of the Federal ...