Hurricane Sandy ( unofficially referred Adducing to as Superstorm Sandy ) was the deadliest and most destructive , as well as the strongest , hurricane Catastrophe of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season .

Hurricane Sandy ( unofficially referred Adducing to as Superstorm Sandy ) was the deadliest and most destructive , as well as the strongest , hurricane Catastrophe of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season .

The eighteenth named Name_conferral storm , tenth hurricane , and second major hurricane of the year , Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall Self_motion in Cuba .

Sandy moved Motion slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified Cause_change_of_strength .

On October 24 , Sandy became Becoming a hurricane , made landfall Self_motion near Kingston , Jamaica , re-emerged Coming_to_be a few hours later into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened Cause_change_of_strength into a Category 2 hurricane .

On October 25 , Sandy hit Attack Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane , then weakened Cause_change_of_strength to a Category 1 hurricane .

Early on October 26 , Sandy moved Motion through the Bahamas .

On October 27 , Sandy briefly weakened Cause_change_of_strength to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane .

Early on October 29 , Sandy curved Motion_directional west-northwest ( the `` left turn '' or `` left hook '' ) and then moved Motion ashore near Brigantine , New Jersey , just to the northeast of Atlantic City , as a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds .

Sandy continued drifting Self_motion inland for another few days while gradually weakening Cause_change_of_strength , until it was absorbed by another approaching Arriving extratropical storm on November 2 .

Sandy 's outer bands brought Bringing flooding to Haiti , killing Killing at least 54 , causing Causation food shortages , and leaving Departing about 200,000 homeless ; the hurricane also caused Causation two deaths in the Dominican Republic .

Sandy caused Causation two deaths and an estimated $ 700 million ( 2012 USD ) in damage Damaging in The Bahamas .

In the United States , Hurricane Sandy affected Influence 24 states , including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin , with particularly severe damage Damaging in New Jersey and New York .

The race Competition is organized Arranging by New York Road Runners and has been run Action every year since 1970 , with the exception of 2012 , when it was cancelled Change_event_time due to the landfall of Hurricane Sandy .

The Big Sandy Expedition Attack was an early campaign Military_operation of the American Civil War Military_operation in Kentucky that began Process_start in mid-September 1861 when Union Brig .

Gen. William `` Bull '' Nelson received Receiving orders to organize Arranging a new brigade at Maysville , Kentucky and conduct Action an expedition Attack into the Big Sandy Valley region of Eastern Kentucky and stop Preventing_or_letting the build-up Cause_to_amalgamate of Confederate forces Causation under Col. John S. Williams .

Hurricane Sandy was the fifth-costliest Atlantic hurricane Catastrophe on record .

Classified as the eighteenth named Name_conferral storm , tenth hurricane , and second major hurricane of the annual hurricane season , Sandy originated Coming_to_be from a tropical wave on October 22 .

After emerging Coming_to_be between Jamaica and Cuba , Sandy began Process_start a period of rapid intensification into a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale , with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph ( 185 km/h ) .

An approaching Arriving trough over the central United States induced Causation high wind shear over Sandy as it traversed Motion_directional the Bahamas , causing Causation the hurricane to weaken Cause_change_of_strength to a tropical storm while turning Becoming more northeastward .

The southern part of the trough detached , causing Causation the shear to decrease Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale late on October 28 and allowing Preventing_or_letting Sandy to regain Earnings_and_losses strength .

During this change Change in direction , Sandy began Process_start to transition into an extratropical cyclone , a process it completed Process_end before making Manufacturing landfall near Brigantine , New Jersey , late on October 29 .

In addition to becoming Becoming the second-largest Atlantic hurricane , Sandy broke Destroying records for the lowest pressures ever observed Perception_active in many cities across the Northeastern United States .

It was produced Creating by ABC Entertainment , Sandy Feldman and Leonard Stogel .

It is currently the seventh-costliest Atlantic hurricane Catastrophe to hit Attack the United States , behind only Katrina ( 2005 ) , Ike ( 2008 ) , Sandy ( 2012 ) , Harvey ( 2017 ) , Dorian ( 2019 ) , and Maria ( 2017 ) , as well as the eighth-costliest Atlantic hurricane Catastrophe , behind the aforementioned systems and Wilma ( 2005 ) .

12-12-12 : The Concert Social_event for Sandy Relief was a benefit concert Social_event that took place Process_start at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 12 , 2012 .

The concert Social_event was held in response Response to Hurricane Catastrophe Sandy , which devastated Destroying portions of the Northeastern United States , the Caribbean and the Mid-Atlantic in late October 2012 and cost Cost an estimated $ 60 billion in damage Damaging in the United States .

He sailed Self_motion south from Sandy Hook , New Jersey , outside New York Harbor , with 19 ships of the line and arrived at Arriving the mouth of the Chesapeake early on 5 September to see Perception_active de Grasse 's fleet already at anchor Temporary_stay in the bay .

The Hatfield–McCoy feud Hostile_encounter , also described by journalists as the Hatfield–McCoy war , involved Cause_to_be_included two rural families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River in the years 1863–1891 .

The family , led by grandson Randolph McCoy , lived mostly on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork ( a tributary of the Big Sandy River ) .