A Year After Sandy, New Initiative Aims To Help 'Resilient' Cities Prepare For Disaster

A year ago, Hurricane Sandy left a trail of flames, death and destruction from Jamaica to Canada, killing at least 286 people and costing more than $65 billion damage to the United States alone. The storm was particularly damaging to the New York metropolitan area, which had been spared a major meteorological disaster for generations - entire communities from the New Jersey Atlantic coastline up through Staten Island and Queens, and the south shore of Long Island were nearly destroyed. A full ye...