The year 2012 produced highs and lows.

From Team USA winning 104 medals in the 2012 Summer Olympics, ofwhich 46 were gold – more than any non-boycotted Olympics since1904 – to the mega-disaster of super storm Sandy and the huge swathof destruction it caused in the northeastern U.S.  

Beyond the unimaginable costs from Hurricane Sandy with damageestimates ranging from $60 to $80 billion, of the 2,000 creditunions located in the path of the storm, 838 or 42% were unable tooperate to varying degrees in the difficult days that followedlandfall on Oct. 29.  A week after the devastationoccurred, 729 of the 838 credit unions were again fullyoperational. They opened not without some scars, includingfrustrated members who were unable to access their accounts, cashand direct deposits.