The Science of Hurricane Sandy Liveblog

Welcome to the Science of Hurricane Sandy liveblog? we?re the Scientific American representatives at ScienceWriters2012 and now we?re trapped in Raleigh, North Carolina thanks to Sandy.?We have founded?Scientific American?s first-ever ?Raleigh bureau? and will be live-blogging on the storm and answering your storm science questions.

If you have pictures, video, audio or questions about Sandy?share them with us at submit@sciam.com, our facebook page, or tweet @sciam with #sciamsandy.

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News Update? Sandy v. Irene Visual
3:40 pm EDT Monday, October 29, 2012

Credit: NASA

How does Sandy stack up to previous hurricanes? Scientific American?s Mark Fischetti has the numbers for Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy. Over at The Wall Street Journal, they?ve set up a visual comparison of Sandy and 2011?s Hurricane Irene?which they report cost more than $15 billion in damages.

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My First Storm? Marissa Fessenden
3:24pm EDT Monday, October 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy is on track to make history, but some weather sticks with you for more personal reasons.

My first storm is also my first memory. It was September and my parents were half an hour away, at their alma mater?s homecoming, leaving my brother and I in the capable hands of our favorite babysitter. I was two years old, so this memory is more constructed than true. A fearsome thunderstorm, not uncommon during summers in Upstate New York took out the power. I remember it was dark and the babysitter held my baby brother and I on the blue couch in our living room. Cracks of thunder shook the house.

That?s all I remember. I must have been terrified for this experience to stamp itself on to my mind. My mom tells me that our babysitter took us into the basement when a branch fell on the power transformer across the road. Arcing and sparks threatened to start a fire. Wind ripped one of the doors off a barn on the family dairy farm. Forage wagons, used to harvest corn or hay, blew across a field and into our back yard.

I also remember a blizzard in 1993 that struck late in the season. My mom reminded me that my dad and uncle worked for 36 hours, caring for and milking about 500 cows every 12 hours by themselves. My uncle drove a tractor through the seven-foot drifts in our driveway to pick up my dad. The milk truck came just in time to empty the bulk tank?they were an hour away from dumping milk down the drain. I remember sledding down the piles of snow. School was closed for a week. I measure all winters against that one and have been disappointed ever since. ?Marissa Fessenden

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