The Next Superstorm Sandy: Five Areas Most at Risk

There are five vulnerable areas of the county that could experience the next Sandy, one of the nation's foremost hurricane experts told the annual meeting of the National Weather Association in Charleston, S.C. last week.
Bill Read – whose meteorology career has spanned five decades, beginning in the early 1970s serving in U.S. Navy flying into hurricanes, and included 30 years with the National Weather Service and four years as director of the National Hurricane Center – stressed there are a number of locations from Brownsville, Texas to Maine that could suffer from a storm like Sandy.
To arrive at the top five locations, Read considered areas with significant population and infrastructure at risk, population growth and how long it's been since a historically significant storm had occurred.
Read, now the hurricane expert at KPRC in Houston, has worked more than 130 tropical cyclones during his career in the NWS. As a child growing up in Delaware, he experienced Hurricane Hazel in 1954.
In listening to Read's presentation, it's that clear his passion is not only meteorology, but also preparedness. He serves as a leadership partner with the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH).
Here are the five areas that Read says should prepare for the next Sandy

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