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Severe weather causses severe damage across San Antonio
A day of historic flooding across San Antonio The fire department saying they made about 65 water rescues since midnight throughout the San Antonio area.A car w ...
Grist on MSN2d
Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born
When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan, leaving 2 million people without electricity and heat and damaging tens of ...
ScienceAlert on MSN2d
Hurricane Sandy May Have Affected The Brains of Unborn Children
In October 2012, one of the largest and most destructive storms to emerge from the Atlantic devastated the US and Caribbean.
THE CITY3d
Climate Challenge Looms Over Mayor’s Race Dominated by Other Issues
Myrie, as part of his Black Agenda, emphasizes investing in flooding solutions and sewer upgrades in specific flood-prone ...
Inside Climate News4d
Rockaway is a New York Coastal Community Trying to Fight Erosion–and Then EPA Cancelled Funding
Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s ...
Construction Dive10d
$1.6B East River Tunnel rehab starts in NYC
Skanska and E-J Electric Installation Co. crews will overhaul the century-old rail tubes that Hurricane Sandy damaged in 2012 ...
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Hurricane Sandy, explained
Most businesses and homeowners in New York City did not have flood insurance, having never suspected a storm the size of Sandy could reach so far north. As a result, Hurricane Sandy served as a ...
City Limits1y
11 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Plan to Build Storm Barriers Around NYC Faces Pushback
Eleven years after hurricane Sandy killed 43 New Yorkers and caused $19 billion ... RELATED READING: ‘Predictable Emergencies’: NYC Flash Floods Spur Renewed Calls for Basement Legalization Last month ...
Gizmodo2y
This New NYC Hospital Is Designed to Be Hurricane-Proof
A view of the new NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital. Photo: Angely Mercado Ten years after Hurricane Sandy flooded the emergency room at the old Coney ...
New York Daily News2y
Con Ed lesson from Hurricane Sandy: Exceed federal standards for protecting electric equipment in floods
Lessons from the giant Hurricane Sandy blackouts of 2012 are not lost on Con Edison — which says it needs to exceed federal protection standards for its equipment prone to storm flooding.
New York Post2y
Hurricane Sandy: Photos document catastrophe 10 years later
Ten years after Hurricane Sandy unleashed its devastation on New York City and the surrounding region ... Queens burned at least 50 homes to the ground as floods kept firefighters at bay.
NPR2y
A decade after Sandy, hurricane flood maps reveal New York's climate future
Superstorm Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012 and was the deadliest storm of that hurricane season ... of New Yorkers directly threatened by flooding could more than double from about ...