Katrina-Like Storm Surges Could Become Norm
Last year’s devastating flooding in New York City from Hurricane Sandy was the city’s largest storm surge on record. Though Hurricane Sandy was considered a 100-year-event, a storm that lashes a region only once a century, a new study finds global warming could bring similar destructive storm surges to the Gulf and East Coasts of the United States every other year before 2100.
Tallying natural disaster-related losses
For three consecutive years, natural hazards have cost the world more than US$100 billion a year, according to new data from the Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), released in Geneva.
Typhoon Bopha hits storm-battered southern Philippines
On Dec. 5, 2012, Bopha crossed over Palawan and entered the South China Sea after crossing over the southern Philippines’ Mindanao region, leaving death and destruction in its wake.
To Birds, Storm Survival Is Only Natural
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the northeaster, much of the East Coast looked so battered and flooded, so strewed with toppled trees and stripped of dunes and beaches, that many observers feared the worst. Any day now, surely, the wildlife corpses would start showing up, especially birds…
Hurricane Sandy Damage Amplified By Breakneck Development Of Coast
Pell-mell, decades-long rush to throw up housing and businesses along fragile and vulnerable coastlines trumped commonsense concerns about the wisdom of placing hundreds of thousands of closely huddled people in the path of potential cataclysms.
Superstorm Sandy: Interactive Before And After Images
Parts of the New Jersey coastline before and after the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Post Sandy: Most Recent Aerial Images of New Jersey and New York Shoreline
Most recent aerial pictures of New Jersey and NY shoreline after superstorm Sandy devastated the areas, by PSDS / WCU.
What’s Next After Superstorm Sandy?
All along the coast, hundreds of homes were lost, and thousands of people still have no power after Sandy wreaked havoc. The impact is not unlike many other destructive recent storms in the United States, such as Ivan, Katrina and Ike. So what can be done..?
Sandy-Battered NYC, NJ Prepare for New Storm
Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy waited with dread Wednesday and heard warnings to evacuate for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm spun toward them.