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Sarasota News Leader December 14, 2012 Page 47 ber snowfall could be in the offing for higher altitudes. (hurricane snow??!!) ���Some models suggest over a foot of heavy, wet snow could fall in places like western Maryland and central and western Pennsylvania. This amount of snow on top of existing foliage could result in tremendous damage and power outages,��� the newspaper reported. Sandy survived Jamaica and Cuba then bore down on the Bahamas. The Palm Beach offshore forecast advised seas would be running 22 to 32 feet, with winds to 70 knots. Sandy was at that point a Category 2 storm. Spotted by the space probe Cassini earlier this year, this cyclone on Saturn is about the diameter of the planet Earth, and it could be more than a billion years old. Image courtesy NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory The cyclone emerged from the Bahamas as a Category 1 storm, but with a vastly expanded wind field. By midnight Oct. 27, tropical storm force winds extended out 520 miles from the smashed homes along New Jersey and Long center, meaning the diameter of tropical storm Island. force winds was 1,000-plus miles. Central Sandy could be the largest hurricane disaster pressure in the storm was 28.35 inches. in United States history, at least in monetary Hurricane Sandy ��� like Isaac ��� had a very terms. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 toppled New difficult time ���closing the loop��� to create an Orleans levees, resulting in massive flooding. eye and all-round circulation. But once it did The federal government spent $19.6 billion in form an eye ��� again like Isaac, only hours hurricane aid after Katrina. before landfall ��� it strengthened mightily. On Dec. 9 President Barak Obama asked At 2 p.m. Oct. 29, the central pressure was Congress for a $60.4 billion ���emergency aid 27.76 (a one-quarter-inch drop in three hours!) package to assist recovery efforts from Hurriand sustained winds were up to 90 mph. The cane Sandy.��� New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo storm had a forward speed of 28 mph. Thus, said the storm damaged or destroyed 305,000 on the ���wrong side��� ��� e.g., the northeastern homes and 265,000 businesses. Katrina (and side of the storm ��� sustained winds were 118 Rita a month later) damaged or destroyed mph when storm speed was added to wind 215,000 homes and 18,500 businesses. speed. It could be worse. If you lived at the south Tropical storm force winds were felt between pole of the planet Saturn, you would endure a South Carolina and Maine. Six million people perpetual hurricane with winds of more than lost power, some for weeks. Storm surges 300 miles per hour. %