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Hurricane Ida in 2021 could have been even worse for New York City
During the final week of summer in 2021, Hurricane Ida emerged from the Gulf of Mexico, turned almost directly northeast and ...
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Hurricane Sandy, Ten Years Later
Section of washed out tracks damage on the New York City Subway’s Rockaway Line (A train ... Jersey would reach 94% of pre-Sandy level, with some trains being add on each of several lines. NJT notes ...
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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 ...
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A Timeline of Hurricane Sandy
New York City closes schools and suspends subway, bus and commuter train service. The stock exchange closes, and Broadway goes dark. Oct. 29 Hurricane Sandy ... and severe flooding in New Jersey ...
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With Hurricane Season Underway, Flooding Concerns Rise Among New York Commuters
“Not that long ago at 157th Street, which is usually one of the stops that I frequent on the 1 train ... flood-modeling method to predict climate change’s influence in New York City through hurricanes ...
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New York labours to raise flood defences a decade after Hurricane Sandy
“It’s a good visual besides looking at maps of flood plain elevation.” Saturday marks 10 years since Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New York City, killing 43 residents, causing $19bn in ...
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Meet the New Yorkers choosing to live on its flood-prone coasts
The hundreds of thousands of people who live along New York City’s 520 miles of waterfront have spent the seven years since Hurricane ... Hallett saw the flooding firsthand. Sandy-surged waters ...
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New York Task Force One simulates hurricane preparedness drills on Fire Island
FIRE ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- When disaster strikes New York City ... by flooding. A canine is used to find a victim stranded in the weeds. It's what they learned since Superstorm Sandy ...
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10 years after Hurricane Sandy hit NYC, memories come flooding back
In New York City ... Hurricane Sandy, jumped in to help anyone he could after the storm slammed Staten Island. He first responded to an "SOS" call from his work partner to help with a basement ...
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A decade after Sandy, hurricane flood maps reveal New York’s climate future
The Washington Houses is a 15-building complex operated by the New York City ... Hurricane Sandy. Scott Heins for WNYC/Gothamist Future storms, coupled with sea level rise from climate change ...
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A decade after Sandy, hurricane flood maps reveal New York's climate future
Superstorm Sandy hit New York City on October ... but was unharmed during Hurricane Sandy. Future storms, coupled with sea level rise from climate change, will flood even more low-income New ...