Hurricane Sandy
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- Hurricane Sandy
- When, where, why?
- 29th October 2012
- Hit USA, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Bahamas
- Began as a tropical storm in Caribbean sea, south of Jamaica
- Wind speeds: 160km/h
- Merged with weather pattern from west to form extra-tropical cyclone
- Impacts
- 233 killed
- Damage cost $75 billion
- Cuba: 15,000 homes destroyed
- USA: Millions without electricity
- Responses
- Pre-landfall
- Jamaica: Kingston airport closed. Schools closed and roofs reinforced.
- Post-landfall
- UN and World Food Programme provided relief supplies for 500,000 people.
- US Red Cross supplied 4000 volunteers.
- 2013- US government approved relief package worth over $50 billion.
- Throughout 2013- mass reconstruction of community centres and homes.
- December 2013- 1/2 the people who had requested financial aid still hadn't received it.
- Pre-landfall
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