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This far surpassed the $1 billion damage total Hurricane Irene from the 2011, the state's previous costliest natural disaster. [25] Damage was heaviest in Ocean and Monmouth counties. [8] Statewide, Sandy damaged 346,000 homes, [26] with about 30,000 homes and businesses destroyed or significantly damaged. [8]
Hurricane Sandy originated in the Caribbean Sea on October 22. Early on October 25, Hurricane Sandy moved across eastern Cuba as a major hurricane and emerged into the western Atlantic Ocean. [5] The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expected that Sandy would become extratropical at some point before hitting the New Jersey coast, but there was ...
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 ...
Hurricane Sandy destroyed thousands of homes in the Northeast, reportedly inflicting as much as $50 billion worth of damage and sparking a slew of relief efforts aimed at providing housing aid for ...
By AOL Real Estate and The Associated Press Flooding from Hurricane Sandy's storm surge may cause $90 billion in damage to nearly 300,000 properties in the superstorm's path, says the analytics ...
As forecasters become more certain about where Hurricane Sandy will reach shore, one research firm has increased its estimates of potential damage to up to 284,000 homes with an aggregate value of ...
Most of the damage in Rhode Island was along the coastline and in southern towns, including deep into Narragansett Bay. The storm surge washed away large sections of the Newport Cliff Walk. [32] The walk was closed through June 2014, when it reopened after a $5.2 million restoration. [33] Damage across Rhode Island amounted to $11.2 million. [34]
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 ...