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14 Stunning Sandy Statistics
A by-the-numbers look at the wreckage left behind.
Reporters and witnesses have struggled for words to describe the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy, the largest recorded Atlantic storm north of North Carolina. While shots of flooding in Manhattan have dominated the media, much of the damage has occurred along the more fragile coastlines nearby and has yet to be meaningfully tabulated.
What figures we do have are in every way astonishing: