Hurricane Sandy hit the New Jersey coast Monday evening, bringing high winds and large amounts of water with it. Residents of the area cannot believe what they were seeing. There was standing water in places that they never thought could be flooded. In an area not used to hurricane weather, many people were unprepared for this event. The first confirmed death occurred when a falling tree landed on a man, crushing him. It is estimated that Hurricane Sandy will cause $10 billion in damage.
The lower the pressure of a storm, the stronger it usually is. Hurricane Sandy has a minimum pressure of 943 millibars, where as the "Long Island Express" Hurricane of 1938 had a low pressure reading of 946. The somewhat good news is that Sandy was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm. This downgrade means less punishing winds.
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| Flood map of the New York City area from Hurricane Sandy |
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/us/tropical-weather-sandy/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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