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Hurricane Sandy Leaves 17 Million People In FEMA Disaster Areas (INFOGRAPHIC)

Hurricane Sandy was one for the record books.

The storm, which resulted in the deaths of at least 75 people in the United States, is the largest hurricane to ever form in the Atlantic basin since record keeping began in 1851. In addition, it's estimated that Sandy could have caused $50 billion in economic losses.

Sandy leveled a direct hit at the most densely populated stretch of the East Coast, of which large areas have since been declared FEMA Disaster areas.

An estimated 17 million people are in the FEMA-designated disaster areas.

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Within those disaster areas, the "Frankenstorm" resulted in unprecedented storm surges, widespread power outages and firestorms that destroyed up to 100 homes.

Stories of heroism have emerged amid the destruction, however, and donations have poured in.

If you want to help contribute to the relief effort, be sure to read our tips for donating smart. Read our LIVE BLOG for Hurricane Sandy updates.

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  • Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

  • A videographer shoots a house in Toronto on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012 that was crushed by a tree felled in superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

  • Homes damaged by a fire at Breezy Point are shown, in the New York City borough of Queens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Utility crews work on damaged power lines in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in Berlin, Md. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

  • A vehicle travels a freshly plowed road Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after superstorm Sandy moved through Elkins, W.Va. Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 243,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith)

  • A fire truck passes a tree that has fallen across parked cars in the Brooklyn borough of New York the morning after superstorm Sandy struck, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. A record storm surge that was higher than predicted along with high winds damaged the electrical system and plunged millions of people into darkness. Utilities say it could be up to a week before power is fully restored. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

  • Halloween decorations are seen during a snowstorm, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Elkins, W.Va. Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 243,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith)

  • With the Capitol in the background, a jogger passes a fallen large oak tree on the National Mall near the Smithsonian in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 30, that was felled as Hurricane Sandy passed through Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

  • People wrap their bags while displays announcing departure times and advice about U.S. weather conditions are seen, at Madrid Barajas T4 international airport in Madrid, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Spain’s National Airport Authority said a total of 19 flights between Madrid and Barcelona and the U.S. east coast were canceled Tuesday, adding to the 13 canceled on Monday. Portugal's state-owned Lusa news agency said TAP Portugal airline canceled its daily Lisbon-Newark flight both days while United Airlines also canceled its daily flight to Portugal. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

  • Snow covers the streets Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after superstorm Sandy moved through Elkins, W.Va. Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 243,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith)

  • Utility crews work on damaged power lines in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in Berlin, Md. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

  • Crews work to clean up downed power lines in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Milton, N.H. Thousands of New Hampshire residents and businesses were without power. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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    Nick Macero Jr. looks at the damage to his beach front home from superstorm Sandy in Milford, Conn., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

  • Using garbage bags to keep her waist dry, Mary Ann Tobias, and Walter Chaney of Moonachie, N.J. walk from their flooded home in the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

  • Kathy Jones

    Kathy Jones calls to let her family know she's ok after damage caused by flooding destroyed her home at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. A fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Residents assess damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point, in the New York City borough of Queens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Waves driven by superstorm Sandy crash on the beach of Lake Ontario in Toronto on Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

  • Andrea Grolon walks through waist-deep water in the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Grolon, a resident of the trailer park, was wading through oil covered water to help others get to rescue vehicles in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

  • Trees lie fallen across parked cars in the Brooklyn borough of New York the morning after superstorm Sandy made landfall, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. A record storm surge that was higher than predicted along with high winds damaged the electrical system and plunged millions of people into darkness. Utilities say it could be up to a week before power is fully restored. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

  • Officials assess the damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Wreckage lies outsice damaged beach front homes after superstorm Sandy in Milford, Conn., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

  • A landscape of destroyed homes is at Breezy Point, in the New York City borough of Queens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • A boat floats in the driveway of a home in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Lindenhurst, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

  • Firefighters work at the scene of a house fire in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Lindenhurst, N.Y. According to firefighters at the scene, four homes were destroyed by fire overnight in Lindenhurst, and six in Massapequa. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

  • A member of the Moonachie Department of Public Works talks to a resident at the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The park was flooded in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

  • Residents assess damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point, in the New York City borough of Queens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • A fallen tree rests beside a parked car on East Broadway in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

  • A pedestrian touches a fallen tree that crushed a parked car on East 7th Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

  • Lumber rests on a street below the Manhattan Bridge after being washed inland by flood waters superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

  • A tree leans against a house Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, while another tree lies on a taxi with a shattered rear window in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/David Boe)

  • A man takes photos of a tree leaning against a house Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Bay Ridge of the Brooklyn borough of New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/David Boe)

  • Andrea Grolon walks through waist-deep water in the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Grolon, a resident of the trailer park, was wading through oil covered water to help others get to rescue vehicles in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

  • Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point is shown Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, in the New York City borough of Queens. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • A man photographs a home damaged during a storm at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through earlier. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Keith Klein, right, and Eileen Blair assess the damage caused by a fire in the New York City borough of Queens, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Keith Klein walks through homes damaged by a fire at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through earlier. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • A rainbow forms over Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • A woman is lifted into a National Guard vehicle after leaving her flooded home at the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after supsterstorm Sandy. Sandy, which was downgraded from hurricane just before making landfall, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

  • CORRECTS NAME OF FLOODED AREA TO BATTERY PARK UNDERPASS, INSTEAD OF BROOKLYN BATTERY TUNNEL - Water reaches street level at the West Street entrance to the Battery Park Underpass, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

  • A keep off the dunes sign is buried Tuesday morning, Oct. 29, 2012, in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from superstormSandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and into the streets. The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

  • Jorge, 30, left, and Yaw, 28, wait in front of a closed United Airlines check in area after their flights toNew York were canceled at the international airport in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Spain’s National Airport Authority said a total of 19 flights between Madrid and Barcelona and the U.S. east coast were canceled Tuesday, adding to the 13 canceled on Monday. Portugal's state-owned Lusa news agency said TAP Portugal airline canceled its daily Lisbon-Newark flight both days while United Airlines also canceled its daily flight to Portugal. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

  • Water reaches the street level of the flooded Battery Park Underpass, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

  • The streets surrounding the New York Stock Exchange, left, are deserted as financial markets remain closed for the second day,Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

  • The streets surrounding the New York Stock Exchange are deserted as financial markets remain closed for the second day due to superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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06:38 PM on 11/03/2012
EXCUSE ME - but WHY isn't Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Staten Island and Gerritsen Beach listed on the map? As we all NOW know, and only because of the massive protest against the Marathon (and rightfully so) - Staten Island was ravished. How about Coney Island? The news has all but left Coney Island out to dry - they were, and are, ravished as well. People and animals are going hungry, they're hurt, they're cold, they're scared and they are completely without information or help. It's been 6 days now - 6 days is long enough, regardless of the sheer magnitude of miles to cover, for FEMA and the Red Cross to be at each and every single beachfront community in the 5 Boroughs of NY and they are NOT. No one's donating pet food - animals are going hungry and dying. PEOPLE are still in their water damaged homes in Coney Island and Sea Gate, with NO open stores nearby, having NO idea when help is coming. That is unacceptable after 6 days! Why is the news not covering Coney Island, Seat Gate Gerristen Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach and the list goes on and on, including Staten Island, which FINALLY has news coverage. WHERE is FEMA and the Red Cross in ALL of these areas now that 6 days has gone by? Can you please help us make some noise? Thank you - signed, a Broken Brooklynheart
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05:30 PM on 11/02/2012
What FEMA is exactly doing?
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OldJazzyGirl
Sick of the fracked up righties.
05:48 PM on 11/02/2012
If you don't know what the Federal Emergency Management Agency is doing when 17 MILLION PEOPLE were devastated by a huge storm 100 HOURS AGO, y.ou need to ask y.ou.r parents why they so severely neglected y.ou.r intellectual development.
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08:08 PM on 11/02/2012
 I can go on their web site and read. I want precise explanation from libs. I want you to define their exact role and to justify their existance.
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Arfvedsonite
Bitter, but with a smooth aftertaste
05:25 PM on 11/02/2012
I wonder how much the private sector would charge to take care of this? Price gouging anyone?
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OldJazzyGirl
Sick of the fracked up righties.
05:50 PM on 11/02/2012
There would be no way the private sector could manage 17 million people 100 hours after the storm.
relevancematters
You're so full of what's right, you can't see what
04:56 PM on 11/02/2012
Well, no wonder rescue and restoration are moving slowly! That's a LOT of people, and a LOT of space to take care of.
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04:52 PM on 11/02/2012
"Be fruitful and multiply.” And keep multiplying until you consume all the resources of the Earth. And then…Oh wait! ??????
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05:00 PM on 11/02/2012
And then the big flood to de-multiply the population.
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pdxbuckeye
04:33 PM on 11/02/2012
Staten Islanders may have a point.
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Herromerr
make the world interesting
07:00 AM on 11/02/2012
I rather be in the north east in the fall dealing with sandy than mid summer in the south with katrina any day.
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StephenJK
All your consciousness are belong to us
09:41 AM on 11/02/2012
That's a joke, right?
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Herromerr
make the world interesting
11:33 PM on 11/02/2012
hellllll no its not a joke.
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Herromerr
make the world interesting
11:45 PM on 11/02/2012
guess you have never spent a day in a real swamp. a lot more was underwater down IN LA im sure.
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bridge to somewhere
That's impossible, even for a computer!
04:32 PM on 11/02/2012
I dunno, I'd take the Northwest with a gentle rain 75% of the year over either.
06:30 AM on 11/02/2012
What needs to be done is for each state to take a hard look at what evacuation means. Why people stay behind is s mystery...but why they are allowed to is a greater one. People that went against the advice to leave are the ones complaining the loudest, and taking valuable resourses and time from what needs to be done. Instead of FEMA being able to help people they are spread out into areas where there should be no people, increasing expense and slowing the process. It is far faster to get a meal to a hungry person if they don't have to clear roads to get to them.
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Todd Narruhn
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09:22 AM on 11/02/2012
You do realize some people can't afford to leave when a natural disaster happens. My cousin is a wage slave and had to endure this hurricane not by choice. Stop thinking in the box and start thinking outside the box.
02:03 PM on 11/02/2012
I've heard that excuse...and it  is an excuse.  States and cities should be pro-active and for the people with out money provide transportation.  Before the storms I heard a lot of cities offering bus service...people waited until too  late and then were stuck.  Yes, we need to think outside the box and that does not mean to keep seeing  children dead because their parents did not leave.  As nation that can feed 50 Million people on Snap has no one thought of loading 100$ on their cards good for gas prior to a storm to give them enough gas money to get out?  Why do we continue to do the same thing over and over? 
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stopthemadness69
Real Americans care more about people than profits
05:19 PM on 11/02/2012
In an instant, no warning event, that makes sense. Even with katrina, since it was the levees, not the hurricane, that flooded NO. But in an event were there is literally days of warning, and a 24+ hour window of being told to leave, pack a backpack and walk to higher ground if needed. There are area of SI that are not flooded, so it doesn't require going to the mainland. Some of those on SI died trying to leave in their cars, but waited too long, then saw how bad it was and tried to go. If told to go, go. And if you don't, be patient while waiting for rescue and remember, we may not even know you are there and in need of help for a day or 2, since you were supposed to be gone.
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The Dude...takin 'er easy for all us sinners.
04:35 PM on 11/02/2012
I just said the same thing over on the Red Cross bashing forum. This is a storm like no one has ever seen before and nothing is going to be quick and easy.

As for the comment below, 76 schools were opened up in New York City to house evacuees and those who have been displaced. This was a case of people not taking it seriously.
03:18 AM on 11/02/2012
I wonder if Hurricane Sandy were to completely devastate the red state belt (Montana, N and S Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas) and then replay Mitt Romney's comments over and over again for the people desperate to receive aid espousing that the privatizing FEMA is the right way to go and that states can manage natural disasters of this magnitude...how that would affect staunch Republicans. I'm convinced that they generally don't care about the welfare of others, but it's a totally different ball game if the catasrophe happens in their backyard. A little off topic but still on the same theme, being in med school and seeing staunch Republicans against the Affordable Care Act who find themselves or their loved ones denied health coverage or are kicked out of the hospital bc they can't afford the care change their political stance so quickly it's funny.
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12:12 AM on 11/02/2012
Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for creating FEMA. We will not let the conservatives dismantle, weaken or privatize this incredibly valuable and crucial national program.
05:52 PM on 11/02/2012
It is working out so well..
09:32 PM on 11/02/2012
Better than privatized efforts or state run affairs. Period.
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11:43 PM on 11/01/2012
....don't worry, the states can handle this. They are closer and in a better position to handle these situations,,,,, The FEMA budget needs to be cut:...." Mitt Romney 2011 GOP Debate

When asked about it recently, he refused to discuss it, not now....hummmmmm
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Tell Me What You Read So I Join The DarkSide!!
12:26 AM on 11/02/2012
That's a flat out lie!!! He was asked at least 14 times about his stance on FEMA.
05:03 PM on 11/02/2012
Do you understand what FEMA does? Disaster management is always handled at the level of states, cities and towns. FEMA lends assistance and coordination, but the lion's share of the work is always handled at the local level.

Become aware
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04:49 PM on 11/05/2012
then why is 65.75% of all aide come from the feds? NJ Governor admitted he did not have the resources?? his own admission "not even close"
10:29 PM on 11/01/2012
Get out of NYC, now! Sandy was a wake-up call from God. You all are living on a barrier island that will be destroyed by the ocean. The real caregory 3+ storms are comming! Arctic ice cap will be gone soon. With this giant reflector gone, the Atlantic Ocean will warm up, making stronger hurricanes more likely to hit NYC. Move to a small town, now, where people do not live on top of one another at sea level with no means of escape. Save yourselves!
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It depends.
11:12 PM on 11/01/2012
1.6 million people moving to a small town will make it a really big town!
05:36 PM on 11/02/2012
Not all to the same small town, you nut!
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OldWhiteMale
Freedoms just another word 4 nothing left to lose
12:43 AM on 11/02/2012
Where do you live we're all on ou way.
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04:59 PM on 11/02/2012
lol, Austin
05:38 PM on 11/02/2012
I am in interior, northern Alaska. Come on up! We have lots of room up here.
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Ben Winslow
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09:51 PM on 11/01/2012
If Bain Emergency Management Agency (or BEMA) was in charge, 17,000 of the richest families would be getting help!!!!
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12:18 AM on 11/02/2012
No kidding. Look at the history of privatized fire departments; imagine the horror. It was one of the main reasons fire departments are now publicly funded -- if they weren't, the poor would all lose their homes. Privatization is a simply a path to corruption and greed -- where only the wealthy profit -- period.
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01:41 AM on 11/02/2012
right on. f'd,f'd
09:47 PM on 11/01/2012
Fighting over gasoline because of the disaster caused by fierce weather which is ramping up because of burning so much fossil fuel.
Crushing, tragic irony. I cannot stop puzzling over how many billions of megawatts of power blew through there totally unmolested. The Saudis would rather we do not think about this.
Be well and safe East Coast.
This too shall pass.
10:43 PM on 11/01/2012
well put. My brother and I were just talking about why we don't harness the power from these hurricanes perhaps even diverting destruction. We are certainly headed in the wrong direction as a species and it seems money is at the root of our technological ineptitude in regards to free energy. Sad.