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As the term is of recent coinage and lacks a formal definition, there is some debate as to its usefulness. Marie barret, a teacher at ps 111, is a writing a childrens book titled sandy cant get me down. This softcover book chronicles sandys destructive force across the jersey shore in more than 150 stunning images. Throughout southern ocean county it disrupted lives and rearranged neighborhoods. Author sandy storm is an author, speaker, and abolitionist. Beginning as a hurricane and hitting north america as a massive storm, sandy. Now i need to buy the one that features monmouth county. Like a great and gripping novel, superstorm takes us momentbymoment through the days building up to and climaxing in the largest storm the world has ever seen, while making us care deeply for those in the storms path. David does a great job of showing the destruction and strength of the jersey shore. A brookdale community college professor and mother of two draws on her experiences from a. Oct 18, 2014 superstorm sandy killed 147 people, left millions without power, and smashed records.
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The national oceanic and atmospheric administration couldnt issue reliable warnings. Winner of four national awards for excellence in book publishing. Superstorm sandy was an exceptional and unusual storm. Hurricane sandy was the 18th named tropical cyclone of the 2012 atlantic hurricane season june 1 november 30.
Featuring on the ground reporting from wall street. Midatlantic and northeastern states in late october 2012. Welcome to the official site of down the shore publishings latest release surviving sandy. Factually, it was all but unique in the annals of weather history in this country. Lets be clear when sandy came ashore on october 29, it was not a hurricane. Hurricane sandy, a lateseason atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged slowly toward the us east coast on friday after killing at.
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