10 years after Sandy, NYC preps for future storms
A decade ago, Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters surged over New York City's Rockaway Peninsula, a far-flung neighbourhood by the sea. To help prevent it from happening again during a future storm, contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are now putting two and a half million cubic yards of sand on the beach and building dunes around reinforced steel sheet pilings.