That was a climate pollution tipping point.
That fire was not a reflection of man changing the climate. It was one of man ruining the ecology with very real, very dangerous pollutants.
The environmental laws written after that incident and others changed the look of the nations environment for the better.
Sandy cannot be attributed to climate change. Anyone who makes that leap is ignorant of what just happened and how it was predicted.
Too bad global warming proponents are now obsessed with the CO2 output of US power stations while turning a blind eye on the toxic soup being pumped into the atmosphere by the ever increasing use of dirty burning coal in India, China and now Germany.
The dirtiest burning coal power plants in the US are cleaner than the coal power plants in India and China and just as clean as the new German coal power plants that burn dirty soft brown coal.