[Alberta's Child]

Folks here in New Jersey are comparing Hurricane Sandy to the destruction left by the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 (this was before they named these storms). Did people back in 1944 blame hurricanes on "climate change," too?

I came across an interesting item when doing some research this morning. Hurricane Irene was apparently the first hurricane to make landfall in New Jersey since 1903. I didn't believe this at first, but apparently every other major storm since then either made landfall after declining to a tropical storm or made landfall elsewhere while causing widespread damage in New Jersey.

Does anyone think the jack@sses at the New York Times will mention this sort of thing?

[Alberta's Child]

Correction there ... that's Hurricane Sandy, not Irene. Irene had weakened to a tropical storm by the time it reached New Jersey in 2011.