https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/superstorm/ Recent content in Superstorm on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:56:17 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/hurricane-any-other-name-how-sandy-changed-way-we-issue-storm-warnings/ Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:56:17 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/hurricane-any-other-name-how-sandy-changed-way-we-issue-storm-warnings/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/hurricane-any-other-name-how-sandy-changed-way-we-issue-storm-warnings/622741_10151120770528946_858520023_o.jpg" alt="Sarah and Chris Romulo&#39;s martial arts gym in Rockaway Beach was flooded during Superstorm Sandy. Almost everything was lost. Sarah Romulo" loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Sarah and Chris Romulo&#39;s martial arts gym in Rockaway Beach was flooded during Superstorm Sandy. Almost everything was lost. Sarah Romulo</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/hurricane-any-other-name-how-sandy-changed-way-we-issue-storm-warnings/701204main_20121029-SANDY-GOES-FULL.jpg" alt="When Sandy came ashore in the Northeast, it stretched 1,600 kilometers across. NASA" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>When Sandy came ashore in the Northeast, it stretched 1,600 kilometers across. NASA</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/hurricane-any-other-name-how-sandy-changed-way-we-issue-storm-warnings/P1070186.jpg" alt="Damage in New York. Residents piled up their ruined belongings outside their homes. Anna Marandi" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Damage in New York. Residents piled up their ruined belongings outside their homes. Anna Marandi</figcaption> </figure> <p>The day before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy">Superstorm Sandy</a> struck the Northeast last fall, Sarah Romulo and her family left their home in Rockaway Beach, N.Y. They did not feel comfortable sitting tight, blocks from the boardwalk that faces the Atlantic &mdash; not with the warnings they were hearing and with their two kids, a 15-year-old and 2-year-old. With an evacuation order in place, they went to stay with Sarah&rsquo;s mother-in-law in Queens Village, about 20 kilometers inland.</p>