Hurricane Sandy: the Horror Story.

A hurricane is a type of severe tropical storm that forms in the

southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern

Pacific Ocean. This is the "scientific" meaning if we could state it that way,

but for plebeians, a normal woking class it means being reclutantly taken

away from home. This people that for what they have are left with zilch.

This happens at least one a year for tropical countries such as Honduras,

Nicaragua and Mexico, for islands such as Cuba or the southern part of the

United States such as Texas and Florida, but New York and New Jersey

are really not prepared for thus type of cyclones. They suffered even more

than what snow storms have made them suffere, this is the cruel horror

story of hurricane Sandy.

After making a destructive path through the carribean sea Hurricane

Sandy made landfall in southern New Jersey on Octuber 29, 2012 and

brought with it major flooding, travel interruptions, structural damage, and

power outages. New York City was especially hard hit. The storm system

was so large, nearly 1,000 miles wide at times, it brought blizzard

conditions to West Virginia and 20 foot waves to Lake Michigan. It is

projected Sandy will have caused about $30 billion in damages in the
United States. To date, the storm claimed more than 100 lives. Without

being using rhetoric talking, Hurricane Sandy was rampant with the

habitants of the East Coast of the United States. The pronouncement of the Hurricane getting t the East Coast was

made October 24th when the Hurricane was still a category one in the

Saffir-Simpson scale. The Saffir-Simpson scale is a standard scale for

rating the severity of hurricanes as a measure of the damage they cause.

This scale is based on the observations of many North Atlantic hurricanes.

When Sandy hits New York and New Jersey it was at its zenith as a

category 5 hurricane. It is considered The most devastating storm in

decades to hit the most densely populated U.S. This whimsical storm had

more than 8.2 million households without power in 17 states as far west as

Michigan, nearly 2 million of those were in New York. Lower Manhattan lost

electricity and entire streets ended up under water, as did seven subway

tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn at one point. The New York

Stock Exchange was closed for a second day from weather, the first time

that has happened since a blizzard in 1888. The city’s subway system, the

lifeblood of more than 5 million residents, was damaged like never before

and closed indefinitely, and Consolidated Edison said electricity in and

around New York could take a week to restore. The amount of disasters

that were happening in a small amount of time seemed to be done by

wizardry, the storm seemed vicious.

A zephyre was desired, building and houses seemed ramshackle,

sand became quagmire, the United States east coast was catastrophic.

Parents thought there yearlings would not survive, or like plants would

have a perennial life. People arround the world became zealots of the

news to keep in touch of how the things were going, and some if their

families were alive.

One of the most dramatic tales comes from the lower Manhattan,

where a failed backup generator forced New York University’s Tisch

Hospital to relocate more than 200 patients, including 20 babies from

neonatal intensive care. Dozens of ambulances lined up in the rainy night

and the tiny patients were gingerly moved out, some attached to battery-

powered respirators as gusts of wind blew their blankets. Sandy killed 18

people in New York City. The dead included two who drowned in a home

and one who was in bed when a tree fell on an apartment. A 23-year-old

woman died after stepping into a puddle near a live electrical wire.

In Moonachie, New Jersey and north of Manhattan, water rose to 5

feet or 1.5 metres within 45 minutes and trapped residents who thought the

worst of the storm had passed. In the Midwest waves on southern Lake

Michigan rose to a record-tying 20.3 feet or 6.1 metres. High winds

spinning off Sandy’s edges clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday,

uprooting trees, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie.

Sandy began in the Atlantic and knocked around the Caribbean killing

nearly 70 people and strengthened into a hurricane as it chugged acrosthe

southeastern coast of the United States. With the weather systems it

earned some nicknames like “superstorm” and, on Halloween eve,

“Frankenstorm.”

October was a month of distruction and pain, till October 31st 2.1

million houses and businesses remaines wihtout power in New Jersey.

Devastating two of the main cities in the United States, New Jersey and

New York. Leaving millions of quorums of people without power or

communication for day. Destroying iconical places such as "The Shore" in

New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy is definetivley a Horror Story for the united

states. Many see it as omens of the end of the world, for me it was Mother

Nature giving us humans a lesson. This lesson was that we need to take

care of the planet if not it will come back at us and not in the nices way