Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, as well as the second Atlantic hurricane in history, only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly built up and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified. On October 24, Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, a few hours later, re-emerged into the Caribbean Sea and built up into a Category 2 hurricane.
Hurricane Sandy battered the mid-Atlantic region knocking down trees and power lines and leaving more than five million people — including a large part of Manhattan — in the rain-soaked dark. At least seven deaths in the New York region were tied to the storm.
The storm had unexpectedly picked up speed as it roared over the Atlantic Ocean on a slate-gray day and went on to paralyze life for millions of people in more than a half-dozen states, with extensive evacuations that turned shorefront neighborhoods into ghost towns. Even the superintendent of the Statue of Liberty left to ride out the storm at his mother’s house in New Jersey; he said the statue itself was “high and dry, ” but his house in the shadow of the torch was not.
In Jamaica, winds left 70% of residents without electricity, blew roofs off buildings. In Puerto Rico, one man was swept away by a swollen river. In Cuba, there was extensive coastal flooding and wind damage inland, destroying some 15,000 homes.In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected at least 24 states, from Florida to Maine and west to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city.
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