How Do You Explain Hurricane Sandy? Like This.

Hurricane Sandy did some pretty heinous things to the East Coast, but it would have been a whole lot worse if we hadn’t been able to prepare for it. Thanks be to science. Speaking of, how DID we know it was coming? And for that matter, why in the world was Hurricane Sandy so devastating?

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