Hurricane Sandy(2006)



Hurricane Sandy(also known as the big storm in Cuba and franky storm in U.S.)was the evil storm in  2006. Sandy formed from a wave that moved offshore of Africa on September 29 on October 13 at 03:00 UTC. 16 hours later, it upgraded itself to Tropical Storm Sandy. Sandy moved and curved and was upgraded to a Cat. 1 Hurricane on October 14. Sandy moved and made landfall in Puerto Rico. Sandy gotten blowed to the left. On October 15 at 00:55 UTC, Sandy was rapidly upgraded to a Cat. 4 hurricane. It had winds of 130 mph. Then it made landfall in Cuba. On Oct. 15, Sandy was downgraded to a tropical storm. Sandy was upgraded to Cat. 3 hurricane later on. Then on Oct. 16, it made landfall in NYC, NY. On Oct. 18 it became extratropical. It then moved to the waters. Sandy weakened to a extratropical depression and became subtropical. Subtropical Depression Sandy dissipated on Oct. 23.

Preparetion and Impact
Sandy caused 360 deaths, and $68 billion like the Sandy of 2012. In Puerto Rico, 1 person was dead because he was swimming. 165 people were killed in Cuba. Jamaica was the worst. JAMAICA had $15.25 billion. United States had 171 deaths and unknown damage.