[Timber Rattler]

It's a bunch of nonsense. Andy Parks at the Washington Times did some research today and found that since the eighteenth century, 84 hurricanes had struck New York, with the worst probably being in 1938.

[wrench]

I remember a hurricane pattern study from several years ago. The gist of it was hurricanes have strike patterns that go through cycles of 50 years or so. We have been in a Gulf strike cycle for about that time and are (as per the study) entering an Atlantic seaboard strike cycle.

If this is what is happening the AGW folks will get absolutely rabid after several good whollops to the mid and upper atlantic coast.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[Morpheus2009]

Being in Delaware, the one true case of a hurricane hitting my area was Isabel in 2003. This was the case in my lifetime where a hurricane, or rather a tropical storm, showed winds of over 50 mph. In terms of flooding, that would have been Floyd in 1999, however, every storm since then we’ve upgraded the dams and sluice gates so that the flooding doesn’t happen again.

[Morpheus2009]

Being in Delaware, the one true case of a hurricane hitting my area was Isabel in 2003. This was the case in my lifetime where a hurricane, or rather a tropical storm, showed winds of over 50 mph. In terms of flooding, that would have been Floyd in 1999, however, every storm since then we’ve upgraded the dams and sluice gates so that the flooding doesn’t happen again.