2. Hurricane Sandy is the
biggest
Atlantic storm in history!
Sandy’s center
was about 310
miles south-
southeast of New
York City.
Tropical Storm
force winds were
about 1,000 miles
in diameter.

3. It is 1,000 miles from New
York to Florida!!!

4. Super storm Sandy: Facts About
the “Franken storm”

5. Facts
•Climate change likely made
Hurricane Sandy much worse
than it otherwise would have
been, scientists said at the
annual meeting of the
Geological Society of
America.

6. Facts
•Warmer-than-usual
temperatures over Greenland also
played a role, said George
Stone, a researcher at
Milwaukee Area Technical
College.

7. Facts
•A high-pressure system over the huge
island helped to "block" the North Atlantic,
pushing the hurricane toward the East
Coast, according to researchers. Typically,
scientists say, the jet stream instead
carries hurricanes eastward into the
Atlantic Ocean Temperatures in the Arctic
have increased dramatically in recent
years, scientists say.

8. Facts
•This summer, a record-
breaking, Arctic sea-ice melt
stretched across a larger area than
any previously measured. Greenland
also set records in August with massive
melting of its glaciers.
"If [Sandy's] left turn was indeed due
to re-distribution of air masses and
position of the jet stream, and that in
turn was due to Arctic warming, then
we might attribute a large part of

9. Facts
•Of course, climate change did
not create Hurricane
Sandy, Mann said. Hurricanes
and tropical storms would occur
with or without global warming.
But many climate models suggest
that such storms will become
more intense as the planet
warms, he said.

10. Federal Emergency Management Agency
•Founded in 1979, the
Federal Emergency
Management
Agency, known simply
as FEMA, is an
independent agency of
the federal
government that has
many responsibilities
during a time of
national disaster.

11. Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Its responsibilities cover the
whole range of a disaster
cycle, and include advising on
building codes and flood plain
management, teaching people
how to get through a disaster
and assisting them when
disasters strike, helping equip
local and state emergency
preparedness, making
disaster assistance available
to states and local
communities, supporting the
nation’s fire service, and
administering the national
flood and crime insurance
programs.

12. Federal Emergency Management Agency
•As part of America’s
emergency
management
system, FEMA works
in partnership with
other
organizations, includin
g state and local
emergency
management
agencies, more than 20
federal agencies, and
the American Red
Cross.

13. Federal Emergency Management Agency
•Up until the
early
1970s, more than
100 federal
agencies were
involved in some
aspect of
disasters, hazard
s, and
emergencies.

14. Federal Emergency Management Agency
•FEMA brought
many of the
separate
disaster-related
responsibilities
under one roof.

15. Federal Emergency Management Agency
•It has dealt with
disasters and
emergencies as far-
reaching as the
contamination of Love
Canal in the mid-1970s,
the 1979 accident at the
Three Mile Island
nuclear power plant, the
1989 Loma Prieta
Earthquake, and 1992’s
Hurricane Andrew.

16. Federal Emergency Management Agency
• The terrorist
attacks of September
11, 2001, focused the
agency on issues of
national
preparedness and
homeland
security, and tested
the agency in
unprecedented
ways.

17. Federal Emergency Management Agency
•The agency coordinated its
activities with the newly
formed Office of Homeland
Security, and FEMA’s
Office of National
Preparedness was given
responsibility for helping to
ensure that the nation’s
first responders were
trained and equipped to
deal with weapons of mass
destruction.

18. Homeland Security
Secretary Janet
Napolitano,
who oversees
the Federal Emergency
Management Agency
for President Barack
Obama.

19. Mission Statement
The American Red Cross prevents and
alleviates human suffering in the face of
emergencies by mobilizing the power of
volunteers and the generosity of donors.
Clara Barton and a circle of her
acquaintances founded the
American Red Cross in
Washington, D.C. on May
21, 1881. Barton first heard of
the Swiss-inspired global Red
Cross network while visiting
Europe following the Civil War.
Returning home, she campaigned
for an American Red Cross and
for ratification of the Geneva
Convention protecting the war-
injured, which the United States
ratified in 1882.

20. What can you do?
•Donate money to the American Red Cross.
•Donate Clothing/toys to those who lost
everything.
•Help your neighbors clean up trees/debris.
•Find a volunteer center and give your time!