Hurricane Sandy will likely not set records for most costly or most deadly, but the mayor of New York stated that Sandy "maybe the worst NYC has ever experienced." One record Sandy has broken is strength, 940 millibars was measured Monday afternoon, making it the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for and Atlantic storm to make landfall. With a lower pressure, there is a stronger storm. A record storm surge of water in New York City topped 13.88 feet at Battery Park and New York Harbor's surf also reached a record of a 32.5 foot wave on Monday. Many forecasters pointed out that if Hurricane Sandy were a country, it would make it the 20th largest in the world, about twice the size of Texas. 7.5 million businesses and households are without electric power in 15 states making it this largest storm-related outage in history. Hurricane Sandy will most likely not be the costliest storm to hit the U.S. East coast, but it definitely turned into a major storm that will affect the country.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/us/sandy-records/index.html
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