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Hurricane Sandy Was An Engineered Superstorm
Have you ever wondered if storms were created by people? Well some scientists do. People in the United States believe that the President or the Government created storms. There was a recent study about whether they really did create the storms such as Hurricane Sandy. In August of 2008, The Telegraph reported that US scientists “believe they can weaken the strength of tropical storms and steer them off course using a range of methods that include spraying fine particles into hurricanes or cooling the seawater in areas where they form.” October 30th US NEWS had published a “conspiracy theory” that alleged Obama had used HAARP to engineer Hurricane SANDY in order to guarantee his re-election to a second term.
On October 29, 2012, a hurricane named Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern coast of the United States. Hurricane Sandy came ashore in northern New Jersey Oct. 29, 2012, and as the powerful storm made its way along the East Coast it brought damage to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The Wallops Shoreline Protection Project has been managing the restoration efforts and released before and after photos of the shoreline.
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Why, Sandy even dropped below hurricane status (based on a wind intensity scale) not long before it made landfall just south of Atlantic City NJ around 8 pm on October 29th, 2012. At this time, the National Hurricane Center referred to it as a “post-tropical cyclone” and stopped releasing hurricane advisories. But this lowering in status was no reflection of the destructive power this enormous storm still packed. Sandy was unusual in several aspects. Firstly as Sandy moved northward, the storm began to take on some extra-tropical characteristics, such as a larger and more asymmetric wind field, with enormous dimensions – some 1,100 miles in

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