A beach in Ocean Grove, NJ, just after Hurricane Sandy tore through Hypnotica Studios Infinite Hurricane Sandy tore through the east coast in 2012, killing 48 people, leaving millions without power, and causing billions in damages. On the coast of New Jersey, storm surges reach record heights, and hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed. New Jersey hadn´t had any major hurricanes in decades, notes Joanna Burger, a professor in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University-which probably made people less likely to prepare for the storm, or to take warnings as seriously. `Areas where they have hurricanes all the time, and people are more used to it,...
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