Sandy was one of the biggest storms that hit US. Its been a decade since US faced any such problem related to natural disasters. Major problem that confronted the citizens of US due to sandy storm was the outage of power. Nearly 8.2 billion homes and businesses were left without power, leaving thousands of people in the dark.
New York and New Jersey were the worst hit by sandy storm. New York had nearly 2.3 million people without power and New Jersey had about 2 million without electricity. Major airports in US were shut and more than 15,000 flights were canceled, due to which many people had to face problems.
Hospitals faced severe problems due to the outage; especially new born babies that were in the intensive care unit, doctors and nurses had to give the new born babies battery operated respirators for breathing.
Many residents were left without water and cooking gas. Public transport broke down due to the outage. Streets and roads were devastated with thousands of trees uprooted, homes destroyed, vehicles smashed. People were crying for help. It was a horrible and dreadful sight.