Days before the expected U.S. landfall of Hurricane Sandy, experts are concerned that it could turn into a billion dollar storm – likely bringing tremendous winds, flooding, rain, and possibly even snow to a huge swath of the East Coast.

One forecaster, Jim Cisco, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration prediction center in College Park, Maryland, has been quoted as saying, “We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting.”

Victoria Spears

Victoria Spears

Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].

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