Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Northeast a decade ago, causing more than $60 billion in damage, claiming at least 125 lives in the U.S. and knocking out power to over 7 million customers. Some flooded homes and offices were uninhabitable for months.
It’s been 10 years since Hurricane Sandy, the massive tropical cyclone that ranked among the biggest in U.S. history, slammed into the U.S. East Coast.
And here’s how a meteorologist summed up the dangers of Sandy, a “hybrid” storm that tapped additional energy in the atmosphere, which meant it was strengthening as it made landfall — not weakening, as is usually the case near shore. Ida retained plenty of punch to flood New York’s subway system, kick up seven tornadoes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and turn inland Philadelphia’s freeways into canals. Ida cost $65 billion, according to some measures, and 115 lives, including 50 deaths in the less-suspecting Northeast alone. The property damage made it the most expensive natural disaster of 2021, in a year marked by deadly heat in Europe and a Texas deep freeze.
How exactly does climate change impact hurricanes? Weather and climate are two different factors, and confusing weather with climate has long been fuel for climate-change deniers. Where the two intersect is what matters. Studies show that warming air and ocean temperatures are increasing the odds and severity of heavy precipitation events. That leads to changes in hurricanes that are making them more powerful, and potentially more damaging.
Sea levels at the tip of Manhattan have risen about 8 inches since 1950, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Estimates range for how much additional sea-level rise is likely to occur, but on average, the expectation is that by midcentury, water levels could rise by more than a foot in New York City, compared with the year 2000.
Sandy revealed gaps in limited basement coverage, lack of coverage for additional living expenses incurred because of flooding, lack of coverage for earth movement that results from flooding, lack of coverage for business interruption or business expenses, inadequate coverage for mixed-use buildings, and varying coverage for street and area closures imposed by civil authorities, the Rand report...
Read: ‘If it rains where you live consider flood insurance’: How Ida exposed insurance loopholes that cost homeowners Those back-to-back years marked the first time on record that two consecutive hurricane seasons exhausted the list of 21 storm names. Worried abou the next Sandy? How can we prepare for a hurricane? For residents and business owners in hurricane paths, and even those just outside the typical reach of the storms, a better understanding of flood risk and insurance needs is one way to prepare for these intensifying seasons.
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