About 400,000 residents evacuated, military mobilized, Manhattan underwater, big Halloween parade canceled for 1again Many times in its history, like the New York Marathon, the famous stock market has closed, and a city has been plunged into darkness… worthy of a disaster movie that hit New York on Halloween at age 12. .
New York City is used to blizzards, but certainly not hurricanes. It’s rare for one of these weather phenomena to travel up the East Coast while still strong, and even less likely to affect the New York metropolitan area. However, this is what happened with Hurricane Sandy between October 29 and 30, 2012.
After crossing the Antilles in Category 2, Sandy took a much northerly course: the hurricane hit New Jersey, a neighboring state of New York, with winds of 150 km/h, i.e. in Category 1, but all Waves of over 4 meters and 11 meters above sea level were reported in New York State, with about 200 mm of rain falling in one day.
New York under water, and in flames at the same time
Sandy was no ordinary hurricane: it merged with a depression coming off Canada, resulting in what Americans call a “perfect storm.”A perfect stormsuch as the famous disaster film with George Clooney, and the eponymous novel). And that’s not all, everything seems to have come together to lead to a catastrophic scenario in the most urban and populated region of the United States: a hurricane comes in the middle of a great era. MilletMillet.
Almost the entire South Shore found itself under water: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The VentVent Strong had another consequence: they exploded. TransformersTransformers Electrical and due to leakage GazGaz. Then several neighborhoods caught fire: the city found itself under water feufeu At the same time!
Sandy killed 131 people in the United States, including 41 in New York, and caused $50 billion in damage.
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