Continuing on with the post that accidentally posted...
Here are the lists of the frequent hurricanes that hit this region
List of New York hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of New Jersey hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lot has been made of the flooding in NJ by this recent storm... as if it was unprecidented...
That picture is a hellicopter fly over of the damage in Cape May from Hurricane Gloria, from back in 1985...
Oops... guess Obama is going to have to change his meme to say Romney wants to take the weather back to the 1980s... wonder why the climate reverted... must be all those "green cars" on the road... :roll:
A hurricane... aimed at the NYC area could cause damage... who knew...
Oh, wait several people do...
This is an excellent article that puts it into perspective...
A History of Hurricanes in New York
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Statistically, the New York area is hit y one of these monster storms every 75 years or so; “it’s just a matter of time,” says Lee. After Hog Island [1893], the next big one came a little ahead of schedule,
the “Long Island Express” of 1938, with 183-mile-per-hour winds. [Sandy was 90mph] At the time, Long Island wasn’t a densely populated suburban sprawl. The same hurricane today would cause incredible havoc.
Hurricane Carol, a Category 3 storm that hit eastern Long Island and came ashore in Connecticut in 1954, mostly missed the city (even as it inundated downtown Providence, Rhode Island, under twelve feet of water).
Were another Long Island Express to barrel in, AIR Worldwide Corporation, an insurance-industry analyst, estimates $11.6 billion in New York losses alone.
On AIR’s list of “the top ten worst places for an extreme hurricane to strike,” New York City is No. 2, behind only Miami. New Orleans is ranked fifth. "
So let's see...
1821 - (72 yrs) - 1893 - (45 yrs) - 1938 - (16 yrs) 1954 - (58 yrs) - 2012 (which was actually a category 1)...
If you count from the Long Island Express of 1938 to 2012 that's 74 years... statistically it's supposed to come once every 75 yrs...
Oh no... we must change the climate immediately... :roll:
BTW, after Hurricane Carol, New Bedford, MA built a sea wall as a barrier to hurricanes... New Bedford saw the 90 mph wins that other places did... but the sea wall they built held fine, and the inner harbor saw mild chop only... See what a little advanced preparation can do? It boggles the mind that boardwalks and ferris wheels along the water getting downed by a large hurrican is shocking to some people... it was stupid to have them there to begin with... NJ is a swamp... everyone knows that...