Atlantic hurricane season ended with 18 storms, 11 tropical storms, and 5 hurricanes – 3 of which made landfall in Florida (2 ...

It struck the bustling city of Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, forever changing its landscape and history. With winds ...

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 ...

New towers have already brought tens of thousands of residents to river shorelines in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island ...

On Monday, with Hurricane Sandy fast approaching, Wards Auto published a report speculating on how the storm might effect the auto industry. In a general sense, it was predicted that plants in or ...

By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast ... By the end of the century a hundred-year storm surge like Sandy’s might occur every decade or less. Using a conservative prediction ...

A storm surge is water that is pushed onto shore by a hurricane. It is rarely a "wall of water" as often claimed, but rather a rise of water that can be as rapid as several feet in just a few minutes.

A tropical storm is a very powerful revolving storm ... hurricanes it lacks the defences needed to protect itself. Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone which occurred in October 2012.