Alternate location ping!
People on Cape cod say they are long overdue
Jose Bastardi of AccuWeather has been saying that's he's worried about an Atlantic coast strike. Conditions are ripe--warm water, etc. Interesting.
The Long Island Express made landfall as a mere Category 1 on Sept 22 1938. We've still got time, and Ophelia's beboping along out there!
Seriously though, a Category 4 in New York City would make Katrina seem like a walk in the park..
WOW!
Since I live between 1st Avenue & the FDR I suppose I should have a inflatable raft ready.....
My 86 year old father likes to tell stories about the '38 hurricane and how it wiped out Providence, Rhode Island, much the way Katrina wiped out NOLA. Providence is only a few feet above sea level and at the end of Narragansette Bay, which acts like a funnel and enhances the storm surge.
... It shouldn't be long for hollyweird to come out with the movie.
Seriously, a cat-4 in NJ, eastern part of the storm over NYC would be bad news... however the author seems bent on writing about the absolute worst case scenario, that I wonder if he's clamoring for contract to write a movie script.
What country was New York a colony of in 1821?
Here are some good links to the '38 Hurricane showing the track and photos:
http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurr1938.htm
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/38hurricane/
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/hurricane1938.htm
http://www.southstation.org/hurr1.htm
And if you thought the people in New Orleans were animals... when this happens have your guns ready peeps cause you ain't seen nothing yet!
Last I heard North and South Dakota were safe from hurricaines.
Never heard of Hog Island or the storm of 1938. This was a fascinating article.
The article centered on NYC. But what of Long Island? In googling, they say that the hurricane of 1938 holds the forward speed record for any Atlantic hurricane. That means more lead time is needed for evacuations but... in a Cat 4/5 hurricane how do you evacutate millions of people off LI? The Throgs Neck?
Born & bred in Bay Shore, so this article sent chills down my spine.
Yes, what would the NYeT be without capitalizing a mythological idol. Should have thrown in a graven image for good measure, Pinch.
"Hurricanes do not like right angles," Lee says. "[They allow] water to accumulate and pile up."
In keeping with the NYeT's rapid anthropomorphism, a little magical thinking. What do hurricanes "like", Pinch?
"...Low wind sheer and sea-surface pressure and a favorable African easterly jet stream all create ideal conditions for Atlantic hurricanes. Additionally, scientists say that man-made global warming is increasing the odds that tropical storms will dump on New York City with greater frequency and intensity."
I find no reason to believe a newspaper that cannot correctly spell wind "shear" in a story about hurricanes. Up yours, Pinch.
So's an earthquake and an ice age. Puleeeeeze.
Yet another journalist who thinks it is up to him to educate the complete idiots out there amongst the masses. "Set us straight, Johnny Typewriter! We'd know nothing if not for you!"
The "the vast majority" of New Yorkers are fully aware that a hurricane could hit the city.
They are not all complete idiots, despite their propensity towards voting Democratic.
Gotta go back and read the rest of the article, but I believe the odds of a storm retaining cat 4 status in those latitudes, like the 1938 one mentioned, are fairly long.
Upstate got nailed by Agnes in '72. That wasn't a picnic.
Like that's a bad thing.