This Union Beach, NJ, home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy storm tide in 2012. The inundation caused by Sandy caused tens of billions of dollars of damage related in large part to the large size of the storm, the coincidence of landfall with high tide, and the large population of humans in close proximity to the ocean. Historically and prehistorically, many storms of greater intensity than Sandy made landfall in the now densely populated northeast U.S. - Prehistoric-hurricanes