With an estimated $70.2 billion in damage, Sandy is the third costliest natural disaster in US history (it was second until being overtaken by Hurricane ... on and off the island, it’s the ...

The city of Long Beach, just a half-mile wide ... the biggest storms of the past century — the hurricane of 1938, Donna in 1960, Superstorm Sandy in 2012 — water poured in from both sides ...