Hurricane Sandy

The reason why our schools were closed and the end of the marking period was postponed was was because of Hurricane sandy. She first started off as a tropical wave in the mid Atlantic western cariabean on October 22, "Hurricane sandy" then weaken, shortly after it strengthened then six hours later was upgraded to a tropical storm. The storm moved slowly to the north the greater Antilles. Than on the 24th of October the storm  increasingly strengthen  into a hurricane. Hurricane sandy made a visit to the island of Jamaica. Then she started making her way northern and made a second landfall on Cuba. On the morning of October 25 the hurricane was identified as a category 2. On the late evening of the same day Sandy weakened back to category 1.  The next morning sandy started moving towards the Bahamas. Sandy than again weaken to a tropical storm later that same morning she moved up to being identified as a hurricane category 1. Sandy made her way to the coast of the u.s that evening than was a post-tropical cyclone. She mad her final land form on new jersey and Atlantic city on October 29th. 

                                                    the hurricane category chart

   Sandy, affected Haiti, Canada, domincian republic, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahamas, Cuba and 24 states in America. Hurricane Sandy caused 162 lives, over 20 billion dollars worth of damage. Flooding. Many schools to close. The Mta's in New York city were closed due to the flooding. Many shelters were opened.  Over all hurricane sandy was the largest hurricane in Atlantic on record.