We experienced some hectic winds in Boston on Monday, but we were fortunate to have not been affected too much by Hurricane Sandy. There were leaves and some small branches on the floor but otherwise nothing serious. Several suburbs around us were without power - apparently about 230k homes in Boston.
New Jersey and New York suffered the most, with flooding, trees falling and power outages. Currently the death toll in the US is around 74. Apparently about 9m homes were without power in the US, and millions are still in the dark even after a few days. People were killed by flying debris, falling trees or electrified by loose power cables. Even people in Toronto had hectic winds of 80km/h - this shows the vastness of Sandy, making it the biggest storm ever in the Atlantic.
As the affected regions slowly recover and repair the damage, life goes on as usual for us in Boston. If the centre of the storm was further North closer to us, things would have been a different. We were very lucky.
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