Thursday
Nov012012
More Superstorms to Come
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 6:38AM
Superstorm Sandy was no freak, say experts, but rather a hint of a coming era when millions of Americans will struggle to survive killer weather.
They're telling us we shouldn't be surprised that this 900-mile-wide monster marched up the East Coast this week paralyzing cities and claiming scores of lives.
"It's a foretaste of things to come," Princeton University professor Michael Oppenheimer told CNN. "Bigger storms and higher sea levels" will pile on to create a "growing threat" in the coming decades.
And New York, he warned, "is highly vulnerable."
More in a CNN piece here:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/31/us/sandy-climate-change/index.html
tagged Hurricane Sandy, National Weather Service, Superstorm in Events, New York, News, Travel, Weather
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