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Hurricane Sandy - Coggle Diagram
Hurricane Sandy
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Local Scale Impacts
social
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untreated sewage was washed into public drinking water, threatening human life
economic
buildings, cars, people's possessions and business stoke were lost
346,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in New Jersey and 305,000 damaged or destroyed in New York
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Details
Hurricane Sandy, a tropical storm occurring in October 2012, started life off the coast of West Africa. It travelled north-west across the Atlantic Ocean through countries such as Cuba, Haiti and The Bahamas in the Caribbean before hitting the east coast of the USA. It led to a wide range of impacts.
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Global Impacts
more than 18,000 flights were cancelled leading to disruptions in business, tourism, and trade
Responses
immediate Response
within the country
in poorer countries like Haiti there was insufficient prediction, planning or protection and at the time the country was still trying to recover from an earthquake in 2010. This tropical storm set the country back further in terms of its development.
