Jamal Gaines

Dear Hurricane Sandy Hurricanes are not typical in the Mid-Atlantic states and Northeast, so when Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern United States in October/November 2012. It was predicted to cause a great deal of destruction. According to an online news report for CNN, Hurricane Sandy caused 253 deaths, mainly in the New York and New Jersey Area. There was also a tremendous financial loss. Current estimates show the loss at nearly 65.5 billion dollars. Now that recovery efforts have began, state and federal agencies are hoping to clean-up and rebuild after the devastating storm. Hurricane Sandy rolled onto shore and pounded the northwest for two days, but it will be a few years before the area recovers fully from the destruction it caused. Over the course of a few weeks, 253 deaths have been attributed to the hurricane. Approximately 653 people have not been accounted for. It is not known if they are dead or alive. Hurricane Sandy put entire homes under water. Several people have taken pictures of sharks swimming outside of their houses. It will be years before most of the people of the Mid-Atlantic States get back to their standard of living. In the inner parts of New York, people are starving due to food not reaching them in time. In each area, thousands of people are experiencing power outages. Some people are reporting being close to freezing to death due to the harsh winter months. Each week, the death toll rises as people die from different causes that at the time cant be helped. Writers of the New York Daily News online stated that in New York alone “traffic choked city streets as residents tried to return to work in a New York City whose subway system remained crippled. Schools closed all week. Two of three major airports in metropolitan area re-opened with limited flights. Limited commuter rail service resumed and limited subway service