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THEN: Stormy weather has been around forever, though without modern technology, the inconveniences were far greater. In 1925, this Red Cross nurse had to travel on snowshoes to a stranded patient’s home in the Ramapo Mountains. First responders had to maneuver through snowdrifts and wade through flooded rivers on horseback.
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NOW: Today, displacement from severe weather is still the number one cause for disaster-relief assistance. Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy, volunteers from the American Red Cross helped distribute cleaning supplies, water, tarps, and shovels to victims of the storm in Lavallette. At press time, the Red Cross had deployed more than 14,000 trained disaster workers and provided more than 5.2 million relief items to the region devastated by Hurricane Sandy.