Over 300 years ago:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=95
The Great Storm of October 29, 1693: Virginia to Long Island
A tremendous storm, possibly tropical in origin, changed the course of rivers and modified the coastline from the Delmarva Peninsula to Long Island. It is believed that Fire Island (just east of New York City) was bisected by the storm. The same apparently occurred to many coastal portions of the Delmarva Peninsula and region around Chesapeake Bay.
Sounds like a more-powerful version of Sandy to me, and hitting on the same day. So much for Sandy being caused by human-caused global warming.
“Sounds like a more-powerful version of Sandy to me, and hitting on the same day. So much for Sandy being caused by human-caused global warming.”
No, that storm was caused by European settlers exploiting the indigenous peoples, don’t you know?
/sarc
The liberals are really pushing hard on Sandy being caused by global warming.
Does anybody really believe that this would have been avoided, if only Congress had passed Obama’s cap and trade bill????
Even more interesting that this colonial storm happened during the little ice age, yet was more powerful, offering possibility that correlations, if not relationships between temperature and storm formation, are even so much as simple as pseudoscience paints them. Now, if only some people would actually start embracing real science, which involves a desire to genuinely learn more.