When it comes to storms, Mother Nature has a way of keeping us on our toes. While meteorologists do their best to predict the ...

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With an estimated $70.2 billion in damage, Sandy is the third costliest natural disaster in US history (it was second until being overtaken by Hurricane Harvey in August). The storm was ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast coast of the United States last October 29, it had mauled ...

A Staten Island home that battled back from Hurricane Sandy to “save Christmas” — winning a visit from then-President Obama — is again partly buried in debris thanks to another once-in-a-lifetime ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A New Dorp Beach family who was forced to rebuild the entire first floor of their home in the wake of ...

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and despite being in the path of regular hurricanes it lacks the defences needed to protect itself. Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone which ...

"We are basically now trying to figure out how to do ... capital projects ... that it took us 50 or 60 years to build to ...