What exactly happened with this Hurricane Sandy ?

[Jessica Magallanez M]

Im trying to figure out what exactly happened ! And whats the twitter follow for this ?

[UALog]

What basically happen was Hurricane Sandy was moving toward the Northeast coast where a strong cold winter storm systems was slowly moving through the Northeast. The Hurricane and the winter storm system merge to together right before it made landfall and this resulted in a powerful hybrid storm system that formed in a way that modern meteorology had never seen before. Due to the merger, the storm actually became stronger after landfall which was different than what you would expected as hurricanes usually weakens when after they move inland. Due to the size of of Sandy, the combine energy of the hurricane and the strong winter storm and the unexpected increase in the forward speed of the hurricane right before the merger of these storm, the storm surge was much higher and push much farther than what was forecast. So the storm was even worse than what was already forecast by the experts as one of the strongest storms in recent times.

[Halo Mom]

It was a huge storm that hit the east coast

You had a lot of snow in Up state ny and places like West Virgina and Ohio

It knock out power I think like 14 states

The storm have destroy many shore line towns like Seaside Height, NJ
It has flooded subways in NYC and lower Manhattan blew a election station and have no power
Queens there was a fire in the middle of Sandy and a whole neighborhood was burn down
Staten Island was under water and lost many homes
Then you had states from North Caroline to Rhoda Island with damage and without power in a lot