Sandy caused two deaths and an estimated $700 million (2012 USD) in damage in The Bahamas. In Cuba, there was extensive coastal flooding and wind damage inland, destroying some 15,000 homes, killing 11, and causing $2 billion (2012 USD) in damage. In Puerto Rico, one man was swept away by a swollen river. Sandy's outer bands brought flooding to Haiti, killing at least 54, causing food shortages, and leaving about 200,000 homeless the hurricane also caused two deaths in the Dominican Republic. In Jamaica, winds left 70 percent of residents without electricity, blew roofs off buildings, killed one person, and caused about $100 million (2012 USD) in damage. Sandy continued drifting inland for another few days while gradually weakening, until it was absorbed by another approaching extratropical storm on November 2. Early on October 29, Sandy curved west-northwest (the "left turn" or "left hook") and then moved ashore near Brigantine, New Jersey, just to the northeast of Atlantic City, as a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds. On October 27, Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 26, Sandy moved through the Bahamas. On October 25, Sandy hit Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, then weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. On October 24, Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, re-emerged a few hours later into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified. Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. The eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba, though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States. The storm inflicted nearly $70 billion (2012 USD) in damage and killed 233 people across eight countries from the Caribbean to Canada. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles (1,850 km). Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely destructive and strong Atlantic hurricane of late October 2012. Greater Antilles, Bahamas, most of the eastern United States (especially the coastal Mid-Atlantic States), Bermuda, eastern Canada And if out, NEVER drive around barricades or through flooded roadways," Howard Silverman, an emergency response meteorologist from the National Weather Service, told Insider.Sandy at its initial peak intensity, just before landfall in Cuba on October 25 "Follow all guidance from local officials if an evacuation is declared. The West Point Garrison and Community urged residents to "stay off the roads" in a Facebook post, adding that missing drain covers would make "walking and driving unsafe." "As the US Military Academy at West Point returns to normal operations tomorrow, and the clean-up of the storm continues, we remain a strong community working together to ensure that all staff, faculty, cadets, and family members within the West Point community are safe," the statement read. On-campus residents who are affected by flood damage are receiving relocation assistance, per the statement. In a statement to Insider, the US Military Academy's public affairs office said that it is currently assessing the storm's damage and asked that people avoid traveling to West Point if possible. Four vehicles were left stranded in the flood waters, with water levels reaching up to the vehicles' doors. Twitter user Mike Lyons captured a photograph of a flooded road. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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