New York Warned to Prepare for Hurricane (could suffer as much damage as New Orleans if it were hit)

Red Nova ^ | Monday, 19 September 2005

[zzen01]

NY trying to board the Fed Gravy Train!

[Mears]

I actually remember the '38 hurricane (Massachusetts) and believe me,even after all of these years,I can still hear it.

Manhattan could disappear in something like Katrina.

[Williams]

Have heard this before. I think Miami is more likely. NY hasn't been hit in 70 years, Fla and the gulf get hit every year.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The new summer box office thriller "The Day After Tomorrow II".

[exit82]

Where can we park the buses to sustain maximum water damage?

[proxy_user]

"Still, Burns said, the impact of a major storm could be enormous. "A surge of 12 or 13 feet might really put water right in downtown Manhattan," she said.

I used to consider this when I got out of the subway at Whitehall on the N/R line.

The subway entrance is only about thirty yards from the water, and about 6 feet above the water level. A powerful surge could flood the subway tunnels.

[sgtbono2002]

Witt is Bubba's boy out for another 15 minutes.

[Strategerist]

Not only do you need the precise track, it has to be a VERY fast-moving storm; conditions to create that likely only happen once every couple hundred years; much less likely than Miami, New Orleans, Houston getting hit.

[RetiredArmy]

North Dakota you are next for the hurricane warnings.

[Heartofsong83]

A Category 5 storm at that latitude would be almost impossible. Still, even a Category 2 or 3 hurricane would be extremely destructive in such a heavily populated area...

[MinstrelBoy]

it brings new meaning to the phrase "New York Minute".

[Jim Robinson]

"Major hurricanes are not limited to the Gulf Coast and Florida," said James Lee Witt, who was director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1993 to 2000 in the Clinton administration."

Yeah, but will the great FEMA protect us if hell freezes over?

[HitmanLV]

The lawlessness in a lawless manhattan would make NO look like a summer camp.

[Paleo Conservative]

A surge of 12 or 13 feet might really put water right in downtown Manhattan

That would turn the subways into submarines.

[nickcarraway]

Cyborg did say the subways were too hot.

[proud American in Canada]

It's true that the chances of a powerful hurricane are much greater in the Gulf and Southern Atlantic states, but occasionally you get hurricanes up north, too.

In 2003, Juan, a category 2 hurricane, hit Nova Scotia and New Brunswick--far less populated, obviously, than NYC and with far less economic investment as well--and caused horrible damage.

This is from the Environment Canada website:

http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/juan/index.html

I shudder to think what would happen if a major hurricane hit NYC directly. And it is possible.

[carlr]

The damage would be greater than many would think.The last to hit hard in NY was Diane in the mid 50^s,I think,It was before I was born but still remember the rubble of a barn it took down and my father showing my brother and me the rotting logs in the woods all laying in the same direction.
Since than the number of houses built around here has tripled and I would question their ability to stand 100+ mph winds along with the old farmhouses like mine which possibly would`nt fare well either.
On top of that,even if the houses did`nt get blown away many people now have the penchant for building their homes in what amounts to the woods.
I think it would be a disaster far beyond what anyone imagines all through New England.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I have had it with the parade of self absorbed egotistical New Yorkers blabbering about how well prepared they are for disasters. The head LEO chief the other day should have issued a barf alert before spewing forth.

16 acres at the 911 TT area does not compare with the 60,800,000 acres Katrina devastated.

[TheDon]

"Major hurricanes are not limited to the Gulf Coast and Florida," said James Lee Witt, who was director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1993 to 2000 in the Clinton administration.

Hey Jimmy, what did you do to protect the nation from hurricanes in your 7 years in office?