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Email. Hurricane Sandy is expected to affect between 50 million and 60 million people, emergency management and weather officials warned Saturday afternoon.
In an era of extreme weather, we have to keep the risk of weather disasters in the front of our minds, author says. Superstorm Sandy batters Atlantic City, New Jersey, on October 29, 2012, as it churns up the East Coast. The final death toll was 147. Next week marks the second anniversary of one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S history. Superstorm Sandy killed 147 people, left millions without power, and smashed records: lowest barometric pressure of a hurricane to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, highest storm surge, second costliest hurricane, after Katrina.