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NARRATOR superstorm Sandy slams the northeast. Mans voice huge storm surge. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said Saturday afternoon that they believe the shooting was two opposing parties that got into a gunfight. Watch Lady Of The Tropics Online' title='Watch Lady Of The Tropics Online' />Oh, my gosh. MARTY INGRAM Breezy Point Volunteer Fire Department And the water never stopped coming. ARIEL FAHY Breezy Point Resident It came down and it just washed everything away. NARRATOR dozens dead, tens of thousands homeless, entire communities obliterated. ARIEL FAHY The entire sky was just lit up. GUY FERRARO Union Beach, New Jersey Resident like a bomb went off. NARRATOR Are lethal storms becoming more frequent, more destructive, even more deadlyALEXANDER SANDY MACDONALD National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory It really was a combination of the worst that nature delivers in storms. NARRATOR Stormchasers take you inside the eye of Hurricane Sandy, for a blow by blow account of an epic natural disaster. JEFF WEBER University Corporation for Atmospheric Research So it came in right at high tide, during a full moon, record storm surge, with incredible winds. NARRATOR How vulnerable are the most populated cities JOHN MIKSAD Consolidated Edison Company of New York So there are parts of Manhattan that were being impacted 2. NARRATOR Can we engineer our way to safety, if Sandy is a sign of things to come Inside the Megastorm, a special presentation, right now, on NOVA. In the warm waters of the Caribbean, a tropical storm is forming, one that is about to write its way into the history books. Its the 1. 8th storm of the Atlantic season. The National Weather Service assigns a name from near the bottom of this years predetermined list, an innocent sounding label for what will soon become, against all odds, a devastating megastorm Sandy. Its October 2. 2, 2. MATT LAUER TodayFilm Clip Lets start then with the latest from Al and this tropical storm Sandy. Al, good morning. AL ROKER TodayFilm Clip Thats right. All eyes right now in the Caribbean, Matt. Sandy is 1. 20 miles, 1. Kingston, Jamaica, 7. NARRATOR Tropical storms are a fact of life in the Caribbean, but only about half strengthen into hurricanes. JEFF WEBER Hurricanes are systems that are born in the tropics, and they need to have 2. Celsius, approximately 8. Fahrenheit, water to get the systems going. They actually act as a heat engine. They take the warm water, and it rises up as water vapor. And as that water vapor condenses, it releases latent heat into the atmosphere, and thats where the wind energy is coming from. NARRATOR Only one in 2. Atlantic hurricanes ever strikes the east coast. Odds are that Sandy will do what virtually all of these hurricanes do, head into the Gulf of Mexico, like Katrina, or blow into the cold Atlantic and fade harmlessly away. But then, a startling prediction from 4,0. A day even before Sandy has been named, the supercomputers at a European weather center predict that she will not follow the normal course. TIM HEWSON European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Conventional wisdom said that Sandy would move towards the north, cause it was in the Caribbean, and then towards the northeast, and then it would die and not affect land. But there were suggestions that that the hurricane might not behave in a normal way and might actually end up over the northeast of the U. S. NARRATOR Worse than that, the model goes on to predict that once Sandy reaches the northeast, it will make a sudden, improbable left turn, sending it straight into the heart of the Jersey shore and New York City. SANDY MACDONALD When the European Centre model came out, eight days before, I think the reaction was, This is a really dangerous possibility, but its so far in advance, were going to just have to watch this. NARRATOR Now, late in October, with the hurricane season drawing to a close, New Yorkers are preparing Halloween parties, not thinking about a storm. But thats about to change, because the storm with the innocent name is about to ring their doorbell, dressed as a monster. A thousand miles to the south, Sandy is becoming a storm to be reckoned with. Since her birth, as a tropical depression, she has steadily gathered energy, fed by the warm tropical waters. On October 2. 5th, she is officially upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, with sustained wind speeds of more than 1. She has already brought devastating winds and fierce rains to Haiti and Jamaica, and now heads north to Cuba and beyond. At this point, computer models at N. Watch Why Did I Get Married? Kim Possible Season 2 Episodes on this page. Online Forbes. O. A. A., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are still showing several possible paths. ADAM SOBEL Columbia University The American model, like all these models, was run in an ensemble mode, where the models run many times each day. And as late as Wednesday or Thursday, the 2. American model had some tracks coming in and making landfall, but other tracks going out to sea. And by about Thursday or Friday, the American model started to agree more with the European models. And we became quite confident that Sandy would make the left turn and come into the mid Atlantic region. NARRATOR Now, all the models are converging, forecasting that Sandy will swing sharply around from its northeast track and crash into New York and New Jersey and much of the east coast. Parts of the coastlines of New York and New Jersey are only a few feet above sea level. Strong winds could push the ocean right onto the land, causing extensive flooding. ADAM SOBEL And it was quite clear that there was a possibility of a very high storm surge, and that it could be a catastrophic event. NARRATOR The citys emergency services, police, fire and hospitals, begin to prepare for the worst. SALVATORE CASSANO New York City Fire Commissioner We started on the Thursday before the storm hit. People were checking their equipment, checking their pumps, making sure our boats were in order, all the prep you would do for a storm. NARRATOR But despite all the warnings, there remain plenty of doubters. MICHAEL CLARKE Staten Island Resident We thought they were just amping it more than what it was, to cover themselves, basically. LINDA CLARKE Staten Island Resident We said, Oh, yeah, here comes another storm. NARRATOR Sandy heads north out of the Caribbean, leaving more than 7. It is a massive system, sending tropical storm force winds across an area nearly 6. Now, the first of many unusual meteorological conditions begin to affect the storms path. JEFF WEBER Theres a high pressure system that kind of lives over Bermuda. Its called the Bermuda high. And, generally speaking, Atlantic systems will kind of come along the bottom side of that high and then kind of curve around it and move its way back out into the eastern Atlantic. NARRATOR But this time, theres no Bermudan high to steer Sandy away from land, so the storm heads to the northeast, parallel to the eastern seaboard. Though most of the ocean gets colder, Sandy feeds off a ribbon of warm water that keeps it alive the Gulf Stream, a circulating current that pumps warm water from the Gulf of Mexico up and across the Atlantic. Watch Stash 4Shared there. And right now, the surface waters are even warmer than usual. RADLEY HORTON Center for Climate Systems Research Parts of the North Atlantic were five degrees warmer than normal. And you could see, as you watch those satellite images, as Sandy passed over that unusually warm water, it increased in strength. You could see new convection, new thunderstorms forming. NARRATOR Though Sandy is still more than 2. U. S. coast, storm force waves and winds have been pounding Florida and North Carolina, knocking out highways. At 5 a. m., on Sunday, NOAA meteorologist Dr. Alexander Sandy Mac.