The Storm That Will Blow You Away – Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy began October 22nd, 2012 and continued for 10 days, November 2nd, 2012. The Hurricane went Eastern Coast of the United States, as well as Canada, the Bahamas and the Caribbean
The storm began as a tropical storm in the Western Caribbean and made land fall in Jamaica (24°15′N 76°00′W) on October 24th, 2012 and ended in Eastern Canada (47.18971° N, -70.13672° E) November 2nd, 2012. The Storm was a Category 3 major Hurricane and was the 18th named hurricane in the 2012 season. The origins of Sandy go back to a tropical wave that had moved off the western coast of Africa into the eastern Atlantic Ocean on October 11th. With the extended low pressure conditions, condition was …show more content…
The high wind speed of 114.95 mph (185 km/h) which categorized the storm at Category 3. The air pressure was 943 mbar at the lowest and Mayport (Bay Pilots Dock) in Florida on October 26th the air pressure was 1003.2 mbar which is the highest air pressure that was an element in the storm. The amount of moisture in the atmosphere may was an important role in how large a hurricane gets Sandy was beginning in the Caribbean in a region where the relative humidity was near 70%. This is the highest humidity we saw during 2012 during the formation of any Atlantic hurricane, which causes the hurricane to be so large. The storm surge was about 32.5 feet (9.9 meters) pasted a buoy 15 nautical miles …show more content…
The man was in water for at least a half hour. The man finally got back on land, but was still 10 feet of water. He was hitting debris in the water, because the storm had moved cars, mailboxes, stop signs and much more. The man went into his neighbor’s house and he was trying to get warm, but he didn’t know if he was make it because his heart beat was so slow. He left a note in the house saying wrote a letter saying his name and age saying that he was dying, and tell his dad he loves him. Stayed at house for four hours. He kept on checking his pulse was getting slower and slower and his vison was going in and out. He doesn’t remember writing the notes and only remembers bits and pieces of the event. To this day he is still in shock, his house is completely gone. The number of lives lost in Superstorm were 233 from the beginning of the storm’s path to the end, and costing $75 billion USD. This is because of the high winds which reached up to 115 mph as well as the storm hit a highly populated area, New York City and New Jersey during a high tide and a giant slow wave moved the ocean inward causing the massage storm surge. Vice Pres Joe Biden went to New Jersey to personally
Hurricane Sandy began October 22nd, 2012 and continued for 10 days, November 2nd, 2012. The Hurricane went Eastern Coast of the United States, as well as Canada, the Bahamas and the Caribbean
The storm began as a tropical storm in the Western Caribbean and made land fall in Jamaica (24°15′N 76°00′W) on October 24th, 2012 and ended in Eastern Canada (47.18971° N, -70.13672° E) November 2nd, 2012. The Storm was a Category 3 major Hurricane and was the 18th named hurricane in the 2012 season. The origins of Sandy go back to a tropical wave that had moved off the western coast of Africa into the eastern Atlantic Ocean on October 11th. With the extended low pressure conditions, condition was …show more content…
The high wind speed of 114.95 mph (185 km/h) which categorized the storm at Category 3. The air pressure was 943 mbar at the lowest and Mayport (Bay Pilots Dock) in Florida on October 26th the air pressure was 1003.2 mbar which is the highest air pressure that was an element in the storm. The amount of moisture in the atmosphere may was an important role in how large a hurricane gets Sandy was beginning in the Caribbean in a region where the relative humidity was near 70%. This is the highest humidity we saw during 2012 during the formation of any Atlantic hurricane, which causes the hurricane to be so large. The storm surge was about 32.5 feet (9.9 meters) pasted a buoy 15 nautical miles …show more content…
The man was in water for at least a half hour. The man finally got back on land, but was still 10 feet of water. He was hitting debris in the water, because the storm had moved cars, mailboxes, stop signs and much more. The man went into his neighbor’s house and he was trying to get warm, but he didn’t know if he was make it because his heart beat was so slow. He left a note in the house saying wrote a letter saying his name and age saying that he was dying, and tell his dad he loves him. Stayed at house for four hours. He kept on checking his pulse was getting slower and slower and his vison was going in and out. He doesn’t remember writing the notes and only remembers bits and pieces of the event. To this day he is still in shock, his house is completely gone. The number of lives lost in Superstorm were 233 from the beginning of the storm’s path to the end, and costing $75 billion USD. This is because of the high winds which reached up to 115 mph as well as the storm hit a highly populated area, New York City and New Jersey during a high tide and a giant slow wave moved the ocean inward causing the massage storm surge. Vice Pres Joe Biden went to New Jersey to personally